CAT 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hattie Mcdaniel, Suburban Home Records, White Supremacy
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Welcome to suburbia: television, whiteness, and the suburban home. A sketching out of the typical layout of the suburban neighborhood then most close ups of what it looks like. The song is making fun of the typical suburban home put in boxes and saying how they"re all just the same; ticky-tack everything is the same old . Pointing at the mass production of suburban home. It gives all the characters of a stereotypical suburban person--middle class, came from educated background, everyone is the same, white picketed fence". Race and how it"s produced on screen affects how we view our own reality. Racial identity is conjured by directing viewers to interpret sets, props, atmosphere, and narrative out of which emerge a position within which the racial subject can be seen (courtney 186). Expressing our" values and beliefs (dyer, the role of stereotypes )