Some follow-up info from our discussion on Wednesday

Here is an article from Friday's paper about the killing of an Ecuadorean immigrant in Patchogue, Long Island, by a gang of local white teenagers: Immigrants Say Slaying Brings Bias to the Fore

And here is an overview of the linguistic theory of signs, symbols, and signifiers, which we discussed in class. It's complicated, and might take you a few minutes to tease apart, but this is the most straightforward description I could find; it's the concepts that are complicated, so even the simplest explanation will not be easy.