Negotiating Identity: Betrayals, Redemptions, and the Present
Scholarly Reading: (Type of Citation: Book; Type of Source: Scholarly)
Listen to online lecture on the following piece of scholarship. You do not need to read this chapter, but you are required to know the important elements of the chapter outlined in the lecture
Kellner, Douglas. “Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism, and Media Culture.”
http://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/papers/SAGEcs.htm (Links to an external site.)
Corrigan, Timothy “Film Terms”
Corrigan, Film Terms chap(2)(2).pdf 
Download Corrigan, Film Terms chap(2)(2).pdf
Literary Reading: (Type of Citation: Poem on Website; Type of Source: Literature)
Giovanni, Nikki. “Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: We’re Going to Mars.” (2002)
Nikki Giovanni – We’re going to Mars (Links to an external site.)
Hammad, Suheir. “First Writing Since: Poem on Crisis of Terror.” In Motion Magazine. (2001)
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/ac/shammad.html (Links to an external site.)
Suheir Hammad – Def Jam Poetry (Links to an external site.)
Baraka, Amiri. “Somebody Blew Up America.” CounterPunch.org. 03 October 2002. Web.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2002/10/03/somebody-blew-up-america/ (Links to an external site.)
Amiri Baraka “Somebody Blew Up America” (Links to an external site.)
Suárez, Mario. “El Hoyo” Chicano Sketches. (1947)
el_hoyo.pdf Download el_hoyo.pdf
Laviera, Tato. “AmeRican.” AmeRican. (1985)
org/poems/58197/american” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58197/american (Links to an external site.)
Film Viewing: (Type of Citation: Film; Type of Source: Scholarly)
Real Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Villifies a People. Dir. Jeremy Earp and Sut Jhally. Perf. Jack Shaheen. Media Education Foundation, 2006. (Available on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRUs_PCWeXI (Links to an external site.)
ReelBadArabs.mp4 Download ReelBadArabs.mp4Play media comment.
Film Clip Viewing: (Type of Citation: Film; Type of Source: Literary)
Crash. Dir. Paul Haggis. Perf. Don Cheadle, Terrence Howard, Chris Bridges, Bahar Soomekh, Michael Peña, Larenz Tate, Jennifer Esposita, Matt Dillon, Sandra Bullock, Karina Arroyave, and Ryan Phillippe. Lionsgate, 2004.
Audio Listening: (Type of Citation: Audio Sound Recording; Type of Source: Literary)
Nas. “The World Is Yours.” Illmatic. 1994
Nas – The World Is Yours (Links to an external site.)
Radiohead. “Everything in Its Right Place.” Kid A. (2000)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDcpWmHMP7k (Links to an external site.)
The Narcicyst. “Phatwa.” The Narcicyst & “Spy Oud.” Fear of a Muslim Planet.
Narcy – PHATWA (Links to an external site.)
06 Spy Oud – The Narcicyst Fear Of An Arab Planet (Links to an external site.)
Lowkey. “Obama Nation.” Soundtrack to the Struggle.
YOUR POST: DUE Wednesday of Week 4
PART 1: Answer the following questions in relation to one piece of literature from Unit 2:
What is the perspective of the speaker (character/narrator) in relation to “identity” or “reality”?
What perspective regarding “identity” or “reality” is being imposed on the speaker (character/narrator)
Look outside the text toward cartoons. Can you come up with one example where you see either (1) a cultural meaning being established or (2) a cultural shift taking place. (i.e. a cartoon introducing an “emergent” idea –one coming into being — or an example of a “residual” idea – one falling out of acceptability). Try to have fun with this one! J
PART 2: Consider the following in relation to another, different, piece of literature from Unit 2 Another question you will hear raised again in this module is what the phrase “going to Mars” means within Giovanni’s poem. Once you have an idea in mind, think about how you would explain what “going to Mars” might mean in relation to one of the readings for the module.I suggest in the video lecture for this week that you should consider the Giovanni reading in relation to the Kellner reading and try to understand “going to Mars” as a kind of mental journey. From this, the next question we would ask to add depth to our interpretation is: How is “going to Mars” a mental journey?To get to the heart of this, you are imagining that the perspective of the “Other” might seem so radically different to us that we have to imagine someone not from Earth looking down upon us and seeing things differently than we do. (Please remember that multiple interpretations of this may occur and that when we discuss this in class we should at least “try on” an interpretation rather than simply discard it because it’s different from our own)
Part 2 Prompt: Imagine and write out the way one different perspective offered in the literature might be like travelling to Mars, how things might be different on that hypothetical planet, and why/how Earthings (dominant culture) would reject that perspective (or not reject it, depending on the topic of choice
Part 3: Finally, each of these readings deals with negative impacts upon identity and troubled social conditions/situations. At the same time, there is an underlying positive current within each reading. As your completing the literature for this week, consider the following for each piece of literature:
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