Discuss how and why popular culture is significant. How does popular culture both affirm and challenge dominant ideologies? Provide an example to illustrate your points.
How does the debate about essentialism and anti-essentialism relate to your sense of identity/subjectivity? Have you been told that you don’t look or sound like someone should from your respective ethnic community? Have people assumed that they know who or what you are based on your physical features? How, then, does an anti-essentialist view allow for broader understandings of people that don’t rely on assumptions or stereotypes?
Discuss how race is a social construct. You may draw from the documentary, Race: The Power of an Illusion, or provide examples of your own.
Provide a recent example that illustrates how representations of gender and sexuality have generated heated debate. What are the ideological stakes involved in such debates? How do such representations challenge dominant cultural perceptions of masculinity and/or femininity? Alternatively, how to they reinforce them?
Discuss the differences between agaonism and antagonism in the context of social media. On which side of the debate between the two positions do you fall on? Explain why.
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