WOMENST 3BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Albert Bierstadt, Surname, Margaret Cho
6 Sep 2018
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Munoz - identities that have been rendered toxic. Identities that have been represented in generalized and largely negative terms through: Oversimplification of representation of whole groups of people as violent, pathological, diseased, etc. Identification can be manipulated and worked in ways that promise narratives of self that surpasses the limits prescribed by dominant culture. Only identifying with a part of something. Commenting on how people who are not white or black are often lumped together. People in hollywood will play people of a race or ethnicity that is not theirs. In a cage, dressed as a tiger - oversexualized, exotic asian woman. Comments on demure and submissive stereotype of asian women. Putting all the stereotypes together makes it ridiculous. Cree artist - does performance, video, and visual art. Monkman uses this in his work - talks about two-spirit identity and how it was stamped out by colonialism. Blurring and complicating binaries of race, gender, and time.
