Media, Information and Technoculture 3222A/B Lecture 9: Representation I: Race & Class
16 Apr 2018
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Interested in ideas of representation and interpreting representation: uk cultural theorist, old view: representation as reflection/diversity of race, new view: representation as constitutive. Burden of representation" representation doesn"t matter for white wealthy men because their representation is everywhere: scarcity, marginalized groups, misrepresentations and stereotypes, negative perceptions, normalization and acceptance, public policy. We need the forthright voices of black experiences: it was there in billie holiday, charlie parker, james baldwin, Richard pryor and in the bold handsomeness of the black panthers. It is there in the boyish pleasure with which steph curry sinks an outrageous three-pointer that is speech; it was there in the seething fusion of beauty and the sinister in some michael. Jackson routines; it was remarkable in chris rock"s brave, witty, and exact opening monologue of the 2016 oscars. I think it was there when barack obama wept in the attempt to speak about gun damage in america.
