Blog Response: Quotations should always be integrated fluidly. How does Yoshino integrate (introduce, insert, and explain) his quotes? Mark examples for using a colon, embedding, and using a signal phrase as you reread. Then choose a quote that you haven’t already written about and write about how he integrates the quote.
One quote I found interesting was the quote that Yoshino used a counterargument to his own thesis. It is as follows.
“She gave another example: ‘When I was in graduate school, there was an African-American man who studied German Romantic poetry. Under your model, I could easily see someone saying he was ‘covering’ his African-American identity by studying something so esoteric and highbrow. But it was clear to me he was studying Romantic poetry because he was seized by it.”
Yoshino integrated this quote using a colon. He uses the quote to propose a possible counterargument to his thesis. Yoshino uses this quote to explain to explain that just because someone is participating in activity that contradicts the stereotypes associated with their group does not necessarily mean they are covering. He warns that a too extreme view of covering can devalue a person’s individuality and even result in a perpetuation of stereotypes. Yoshino continues on to say that although this criticism bothers him, he considers it more of a warning than a dismantling of his entire thesis.
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