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Auteur: director; puts their own personality in a project Diegesis: objects, events, the characters that inhibit them, actions/attitudes not explicitly stated Flash-back/Flash-forward: jump backwards/forwards in time Focus: shallow, deep, racking Mise-en–scene: everything put in scenes Iris– round/moving mask; adds special attention to scenes Crosscutting: alternates two scenes happening at same time; suggest history repeats itselfContinue reading “HW 3/26”

The way that the law and science discourse communities shaped the audience’s ways of thinking is that false stereotypes, prejudices, and blatant racism were extremely prevalent in the film. During this time, every institution had racism deeply embedded in them. It would be very difficult to find a non-racist policy or anything in these lawContinue reading “CL 3/26”

Strivings of the Negro People: -DuBois discusses the “double-consciousness” -had both visions of an insider and outsider -saw strengths & weaknesses of society; also saw the deprivation of blacks having a secure sense of identity; he judged himself by white standards -even though black people were technically free, they still had a lot of freedomsContinue reading “HW 2/25”

The Race Question in the United States: John Tyler Morgan: total racist; opposed Blair Bill (thought it would make blacks overeducated); in favor of bill that prevented black people from voting; believed that race mixing should not occur; said Africans were inferior to whites. Thomas Dixon: even worse than the dude above; called for brutalityContinue reading “HW 2/20”

-Gap: race mixing isn’t huge problem, but the babies propose problems -Claim: race mixing leads to destruction of a healthy/normal civilization -Evidence: he uses biased information Warrant: Hoffman= White supremacist Counterargument: People need to not mix races in order to maintain the ideal civilization. Reason: the law of similarity

Race Amalgamation: -Scientific Racism: Africans were on lower evolutionary scale; outcasts; incapable of reaching full development. -“The Law of Similarity”: “A civilized race does not readily intermingle with one less advanced in civilization, for the same reasons which prevent a lord from marrying a peasant girl… helps to keep the race separate”. -says children ofContinue reading “HW 2/18”

Prompt 1: The intercommunication of the members. Prompt 2: They wrote academic journals. This is how their information spread. Prompt 3: Because of the inaccurate data about black people in these “academic journals”, the readers took that false information and ran with it. Misinformation harms society and creates panic, and makes more room for ignorance.

Plessy Vs Ferguson: Miller: 1st intention of amendment: abolish slavery, give black people rights White League: killed blacks in order to deter participation in voting Harlan: “insisted on extensive interpretations of the Thirteenth Amendment; found additional support in the Fourteenth Amendment for Congress to enact the 1875 Civil Rights Act to create new right forContinue reading “HW 2/13”

biological determinism: “hold shared behavioral norms, and the social and economic differences between human groups – primarily races, classes, and sexes – arise from inherited, inborn distractions and that society, in this sense, is an accurate reflection of biology” Mettle: worthiness of people Agassiz: naturalists should have the right to view the physical relations of menContinue reading “HW 2/11”

Purpose: Serving doesn’t define you as a servant. “the meaning of the language used in menus are socially and culturally embedded in the context of the specific situation or restaurant” They print the menus in foreign languages so the customer has to speak to the waiter to gain control. The Gap: identify/understand literacy; realize whenContinue reading “CL 2/11”