For me, one of the harder parts of the semester was the time that we spent on the faminism articles. A lot of it did make sense, and I know that class time was limited for this section, but I just had trouble with some of the smaller parts. Especially now, looking back on my [...]
30. October 2009.
Critical Race Theory
The assimilation and the discourse of invisibility treat the black race as invisible and unimportant. This is shown commonly in older television shows and historical past times. The environment between the white and black race is shown as mostly white with black characters/people as the support system, the help, or even the laborers. The pluralist [...]
29. October 2009.
Black Television
The three discursive practices of contemporary television representation of blackness, are assimilationist, which is invisibility, pluralist, which is separate but equal, and multiculturalist which refers to diversity. For the sake of this blog, I will be referencing the black and white races within television. In more depth, an assimilationist describes the way in which one [...]
10. September 2009.
everyday’s the start of something beautiful
As I was thinking about the the question posed to us this morning pertaining to music and popular culture , my coworker coincidentally put on Beach Boys radio on the popular internet radio site, Pandora. On this particular radio station I am taken back to a time where themes of peace and love were persistent and [...]
7. September 2009.
My Pop Culture Essay
My Pop Culture
Dineen Sampson
In my world, I understand popular culture as being a prevailing group of ideas, perspectives and attitudes that are deemed preferred within a given mainstream culture and are heavily influenced by the mass media. As I reflect on this definition I ask myself, what is my relationship with popular culture? I [...]
7. September 2009.
Facebook: It’s Addicting…Who Knew?
It is 7:00am. I have just awoken to begin my day. Almost every person has a daily routine that they go through in the morning when they wake up. For me, it may be a little different. I have strategically placed my pop culture obsession in between my daily routine. So at 7:01 I am [...]
6. September 2009.
Cell phones affect on Society
I thought I was the last person on earth to get one. Sophomore year of high school, finally turning 16 could not come soon enough. Why didn’t my parents understand that I needed it? Why did all of my other friends get one when they were in middle school? I was stuck with nothing, making [...]
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