HUMA 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: White Privilege, Racial Integrity Act Of 1924, Jim Crow Laws
14 Dec 2017
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017
HUMA 2002
Lecture #11!
Lecture Outline!
-Hand Blog Assignment into correct pile - Tutorial 1 or 2 !
-Changes to Reading Requirements!
-Mid-Year Test Format!
-Weaver’s Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White!
Test Format!
-2 parts = 50 marks (don’t write in point form, only paragraph form)!
-Spend equal time on each part !
-1st part: short answer and identifications (5 marks each = 25 marks) chose 5 out of
10 -!
• good size paragraph (half mark for author, and identifying the work) - 3 marks
about what is going on and 1 mark for an example - focus on significance to start!
•definitions, concepts, characters, short quotations (would of talked about it in
lecture), and or titles as they relate to the texts we studied this term!
•make sure you don’t repeat from one answer to the next and also across the exam !
•will pick things where you can say 4 things !
•i.e.: Stuart hall (identification or naturalization), Epic (long, lots of characters,
narrative conventions - The Odyssey by Homer), Comic Book Terms (Gutter, etc.)!
-2nd part: Word Image Analysis !
•Maus or Weaver !
•Get a choice - 1 out of 2 / 25 marks !
•Discuss the significance!
•List of things that you can talk about: the narrator(s), characters, author, book that
it comes from. !
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•Analyze how language is used to create meaning: dialogue, caption, setting,
diction, syntax (complex or simple), punctuation, thematic ideas!
•Discuss what the images convey - explore the layout: panels (open or closed), the
gutter, regular or irregular grid, techniques of drawing (cross hatching, iconic,
sketch). - explore the visual effect of the page!
•Images literal, denotative, symbolic, connotative (Barthes) - beginning of the
seeing module !
•How do the words and images interact? - anchor or relay the images!
•Don’t reiterate the plot of narrative - discuss the significance of the chosen page
or pages !
•Historical Background: Jim Crow Laws and Racial Miscegenation!
•“Third Race” Category!
•Questioning Binaries through Photographs!
•Weaver’s Photographic Style!
•Photographs as Method of Witnessing in 1960s Civil Rights Movement!
•Weaver’s Incorporation of Photographs in Comics!
Historical Background: The One-Drop Rule and Jim Crow’s America!
-the notion of racial “purity” and segregation go hand-in-hand!
-Weaver flags these issues on pages 89 and 67!
-compares the hypocrisy of white privilege in terms of male-female relations!
-the “one-drop rule”:!
•“Every person in whom there is ascertainable and Negro blood shall be
deemed and taken to be a coloured person.” Racial Integrity Act (Virginia,
1924)!
-radicalized, biological determinism dependent on an equation of whiteness with
purity!
-Civil Rights Act of 1875 attempted to enforce post- Civil War initiatives for racial
inequality!
#2
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Document Summary
Hand blog assignment into correct pile - tutorial 1 or 2. Weaver"s darkroom: a memoir in black & white. 2 parts = 50 marks (don"t write in point form, only paragraph form) 1st part: short answer and identi cations (5 marks each = 25 marks) chose 5 out of. Historical background: the one-drop rule and jim crow"s america. The notion of racial purity and segregation go hand-in-hand. Weaver ags these issues on pages 89 and 67. Compares the hypocrisy of white privilege in terms of male-female relations. Every person in whom there is ascertainable and negro blood shall be deemed and taken to be a coloured person. racial integrity act (virginia, Radicalized, biological determinism dependent on an equation of whiteness with purity. Civil rights act of 1875 attempted to enforce post- civil war initiatives for racial inequality. 1883 the american supreme court declared the act of 1875 unconstitutional. Plessy v. ferguson, 1896, legal precedent established for segregation.
