Week 9
Jack Lowery writes about how an art collective organized to shed light on a deeply misunderstood and hidden crisis that the U.S Government did not take seriously in the 1980's. What was this crisis?
AIDS
Cowie and Boehm argue that a song from the 1980s helped shape white working class identity.
Who was the artist and what was the song?
"Born in The USA" by Bruce Springsteen
Where does the film, Boyz in the Hood, take place?
South Los Angeles/ South Central Los Angeles
Name of historical event in the early 2000s that lead to the racialization of Muslim Americans as terrorist and islamophobia.
Name of the outfit used by African American, Mexican American Youth, and Filipino American Youth in Los Angeles (1940s)
Zoot Suit
What does the Acronym "ACT UP" stand for?
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
Term that describes what happens when factories close down within a particular geographic location, leaving the community with unemployment and opportunity.
Name of the report that said that Black people had disproportionately high poverty rates because Black family structure was “a tangle of pathology” in which single mothers led households while fathers were nowhere to be found.
The Moynihan Report (1965)
True or False: Racialization is always about race.
False
Why was Excess vilified in Zoot Suit Culture?
Rationing During WW2
Name of the Artist Collective that was a branch of ACT UP
Gran Fury
Name the economic theory that the Reagan Administration executed to fuel economic growth, but lead to de-industrialization and social welfare rollbacks.
Supply-Side Economics-or- Trickle Down Economics
What is the irony behind Boyz in the Hood's message, according to Masood?
Boyz n the Hood suggests that mothers are not enough to raise a good man.
The film also suggests that a young man’s goal should be to leave the inner city, rather than to build up the community there.
Name the process of ascribing characteristics to a group (often, a subordinated group).
Racialization
What is the message behind Dave Zirin's Film: Not Just A Game: Power, Politics, and American Sports
Sports have always been political
Sports and Politics are thought to be completely separate
Sports are used to instill ideologies into the masses
Name one of the artistic tactics Gran Fury Employed to reach their goals.
Making confrontational art/propaganda that shocks people out of their assumptions.
Making works that are public, that meet people where they are.
Using familiar commercial language, images, and slogans (“Just do it”), but subvert expectations by not selling anything…
Rather than selling a product, Gran Fury’s work mostly asks viewers to reject common assumptions.
Kelley also argues that this music is a response to specific historical conditions experienced by Black people in segregated Los Angeles. What music is he talking about?
Gangsta Rap
Boylorn argues that Boyz n the Hood is all about learning to be a man, and that the film displays various models of masculinity. There are two, the failed and positive versions of masculinity. How is the positive version depicted?
The Positive Version: in which being a man means taking responsibility for yourself and your children, and not dying or killing.
True or False: positive depictions of Muslims in pop-culture lead to a decrease in hate crimes and workplace discrimination.
False
The process by which a society organizes itself around war
Militarization
In the Film, Class Dismissed, they provide a broad definition of CLASS. What are the three types of class defined in the film?
1. Economic
2. Political
3. Social/Cultural
Name of rap artists and song that asserts that women are not objects—they are people with subjectivity, with intentions, desires, and self-control.
"Shake Your Thang" by Salt-N-Pepa
According to Boylorn, how are women depicted in Boyz in the Hood?
Women don't have much of a contributing role, other than a negative one.
Women don't have much of a place in the film's vision of Black life
Ansultany criticizes the media's use of the post-___-era because these representations fed existing stereotypes. The media used this approach, especially after the election of Barrack Obama.
Post-Racial-Era
Howard makes various points about the Zoot Suit Culture. Name one of them.
Fashion can be political and can be used to form a group identity.
The zoot suit is such a political symbol.
The meaning of such symbols is not necessarily stable over time.
Each time a symbol like the zoot suit gets used, its meaning can shift.