Part one of term paper
"Yo, Yo, Yo -- go girl!" "Hey, over here -- We here for you, girl!" "You look good! REAL GOOD!" This is family and neighborhood pride at stake on the stage tonight. Sisters, mothers, boyfriends, husbands, cousins, and friends from the outer boroughs, Jersey, Philly, the deep South, and everywhere else have assembled in Manhattan on a cool, la ...

Part two of term paper
... routine designed to demonstrate their physical prowess in action. The audience watches them march single-file in groups of three, four, and five across the stage while an off-stage announcer booms their names over a loudspeaker, extolling their pulchritudinous virtues, whipping up the crowd. The easy comparison, of course, is to the auction block, although only one third of the bodies on stage tonight are black.1 Bodybuilding is a "sport of plastic form"2 judged entirely subjectively, aestheticall ...