AMIND 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ginger Beer
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The danger of a single story- chimamanda ngozi adichie -ted talks. Grew up in a university campus in nigeria. Wrote at 7 wrote what she was reading. Characters white blue eyed played in snow and weather. Impressionable and vulnerable when we hear stories. Didn"t know people like her could exist in literature. Discovered poor people could make things- startling. Impossible to see things other than poverty -single story. Roommate assumed pity on an african-single story -no possibility that africans can be similar to white. She took an identity entering america that she had never identified with as african- We tell african stories from the west and are negative. Media shows single story show people as one thing over and over again. Power is the ability to tell a story of a person and to make it that story. Single stories create stereotypes and it makes for incomplete.
