Contrast looksism and extreme body modification. What are the main differences? Then, analyze how the path of resistance or internalization might play out for a person falling into the category of looksism, and a person falling into the category of extreme body modification.
Read Michelle Birdsong’s “Account: Growing up Colored in the South” in our e-text. Then, considering the construction of “tribal stigma,” discuss how Birdsong was deviantized by both whites and blacks. What factors played a part in this deviantizing process? And, growing up today, would a person of Birdsong’s appearance suffer the same treatment? Why or why not?
