Asian American 320
Answer one of the questions below. 300 word minimum. Don’t forget to include quotes and page numbers and to use analysis and evaluation. Refer to the grading rubric provided. Also use the additional PDFs that I provided to answer any of the selected questions.
1). Explain “independent media” and its relationship to subculture and mainstream media according to Ono and Pham. Cite and analyze examples from the reading/viewing this week. State your positionality, where you agree, disagree, or find resistance or accommodation to dominant media.
2). Analyze how independent media uses what Ono and Pham identify as passive and vernacular discourse in different genres like music, comedy, and web tv. Cite and analyze examples from the reading/viewing this week. State your positionality, where you agree, disagree, or find resistance or accommodation to dominant media.
3). Explore future possibilities of solidarity and resisting racial triangulation through the rhetoric and symbolism of what Jose Esteban Munoz and “Brown Girls” explore in their representations of “brownness.” State your positionality, where you agree, disagree, or find resistance or accommodation to dominant media.
4). Thinking of how we began with Stuart Hall’s calling into question our representations of “authentic” identity and culture, re-evaluate Asian American desire for and representation of “authentic” identity through “Brown Girls” and its turn to collectivity that is not based strictly on Asian American culture and identity. State your positionality, where you agree, disagree, or find resistance or accommodation to dominant media
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In his tribute, “female intelligence,” Rosalina Balaciosos is demonstrating five women with various costumes and in separate positions who hold up the heavens. Below one of these women in the central, Rosalina is illustrating the power of women by empowering them through this art. This mural is serving as a model for new generations despite gender discrimination that took place during 1986. Rosalina Balaciosos is depicting a ring of women in not only power but also strengths considering the positions of each woman in this art. Also, the mural reflects on an era in which women were inferior to men due to their gender hence were expected to retain their devalued roles of being wives and mothers.
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