PP249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Killing Us Softly, Bell Hooks, Cultural Appropriation
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Week 11 november 20th, 2017: watched a video women portrayed in ads, class activity (ads) Agenda: discussion: killing us softly 4, reading: bell hooks, eating the other: desire and resistance , eating the other, cultural appropriation vs. Cultural appreciation: sites of struggle and negotiation. Inspired by kilbourne, we spent part of last class finding, and analyzing a current advertisement: reflect on this experience. 1952: academic feminist and social activist, concerned with what she calls while supremacist capitalist patriarchy . It is racism masked as inclusivity; misogyny masked as open-mindedness; ethnocentrism masked as multiculturalism. Could it be: when you understand and nurture the situation, when t-shirt is sold to affluent white westerners for the purpose of corporate gain. Fanon in their songs: the regularly rap about , anti-consumerism, the erasure of marginalized people, the intersection of race, class, and gender, etc, often use inclusive gender language.
