Margaret Atwood – The Handmaids Tale.pdf This week’s assigned reading is chapters 17 through 32. What do you think that Atwood is trying to communicate to her audience with the character of the narrator’s mother? As always, I encourage you to explore whatever interests you all in these discussion posts, the above is just suggestions. 2. As we discussed at the beginning of the class, race has no biological reality, yet it continues to persist as an important sociocultural reality. Since this concept of race has been created–what do we do with it going forward? Is it possible to erase this concept? Why or why not and what are the shortcomings of this approach? How do we address the inequities created by race without continuing to make race significant in ways that are negative?
