STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL EXAM HUM 3321 Multicultural Film Section 5 1 1 THEORETICAL CRITICAL CONCEPTS Make sure you understand the following concepts and their relation to film a Sue et al Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life Implications for Clinical Practice i Racial Microaggressions are brief and commonplace daily verbal behavioral or environmental indignities They convey hostile derogatory or negative racial slights or insults toward people of color Often unintentional or natural Contemporary forms of racism Averse racism anti minority feelings are less conscious and covert hard to identify and may become more influential Modern symbolic racism disclaiming of personal bigotry strong adherence to values such as self reliance and individualism Old fashioned biological racism overt obvious bigotry ii Microassault explicit racial derogation which may involve name calling avoidant behavior or a discriminatory act iii Microinsult subtle snubs frequently unknown to the perpetrator Ex A white teacher failing to acknowledge a black student in the classroom iv Microinvalidations communications the exclude negate or nullify the physiological thoughts feelings or experimental reality of a person of color Ex Complimenting an Asian American born and raised in the U S for speaking good English v Barrier to Clinical Practice microagressions may be more difficult to handle than overt and obvious racial acts Dilemma 1 Clash of racial realities Dilemma 2 The invisibility of unintentional expressions of bias Dilemma 3 perceived minimal harm of racial microagressions Dilemma 4 The catch 22 of responding to microagressions Damned if you do damned if you don t vi Rush Hour 2 b Hoon Park et al Naturalizing Racial Differences Through Comedy Asian Rush Hour 2 Black and White Views on Racial Stereotypes in i Racial stereotype is a conventional formulaic and usually oversimplified conception belief or opinion They are rigid and inflexible generalizations simple and direct assertions 2 c McNamee Miller The Meritocracy Myth ii Comedy and stereotypes comedy relies on stereotype because they establish recognizable character for the basis of humor Comedy parodies stereotypes and inverts them iii Comedy and Critical Thinking genre of comedy mitigates offensiveness of steretypes acceptable for minorities to tell racial jokes iv Rush Hour 2 Promotes numerous Black and Asian stereotypes Ex Lee silent asexual respectful Kung Fu Master Carter boisterous hyper sexual ignorant funny and loves fried chicken Hu Lin dragon lady i Merit Meritocracy merit is quality or excellence it is partially a product on environment and social conditions Factors constituting meritocracy hard work intelligence good positive attitude and talent ability To increase meritocracy reduce discrimination encourage wealthy to redistribute wealth redesign tax system and allocate gov t resources equally ii Meritocracy Myth there is a gap between how people think the system works and how the system actually does work iii American Dream the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work determination and initiative but not all things are distributed equally like health care and education for example iv Social Gravity despite merit social forces can pin down people Life Chances Achieved or Ascribed Status Inheritance unequal starting points access to opportunities education health care Luck Education those with more EDU earn more but not evenly distributed Reflection of family income Entrepreneurship Changes in manufacturing v Kingsman The Secret Service d Marx The Destructive Power of Money i Effects of money on human beings that which exists for me through the medium of money that which I can pay for which money can buy that I am I am what money can get me ii Money as Mediator I am ugly but I can but the most beautiful women for myself Consequently I am not ugly is annulled by money Frank Ribery iii Money as God money is a visible deity the transformation of all human and natural qualities into their opposites Money is the highest good 3 iv Money and Reality money is the universal confusion and inversion of things it brings incapabilities into fraternity it s the universal whore v Why is money destructive it s the universal whore it takes away the true meaning of many things we use money to cover up things we don t like or to buy happiness vi Kingsman The Secret Service e Risman Gender as a Social Structure i Gender and Social Structures gender is deeply embedded as a basis for stratification not just in our personalities our cultures or institutions but in all these The gender structure differentiates opportunities and constraints based on sex category individual interactional institutional and intersectionality Individual for the development of gender selves Interactional during interaction as men and women face different cultural expectations even when they fill the identical structural position Institutional institutional domains where explicit regulations regarding resource distribution and material goods are gender specific Intersectionality must take into consideration multiple axes of oppression ex Gender subordination and heterosexism support one another The goal is to be precise find particular processes and causes of undesirable outcomes ii iii iv v vi Activism Social Change Transformation we need to study gender how it gets done in order to offer alternative to the mechanisms that lead to inequality In a sexist and racist society women and all persons of color are expected to have less to contribute to task performances than are white men unless they have some other externally validated source of prestige intersectionality vii Divergent f Bennion We Still Need a Woman for the Job The Warrior Woman Feminism and Cinema in the Digital Age i Warrior Woman is a representational character who exemplifies and embodies a range of contested meanings about femininity especially capable and resourceful women anomaly Represents a hybrid gender identity Propensity towards violence and a physical mental strength in face of diversity Combines the masculine and feminine figure ii Warrior Woman and Progressive Feminist Thought the warrior women has the ability to reveal the hierarchal dimensions of gender in society The hybridity fluidity and frequent changes and manifestations associated with this figure all gesture towards the artifice of gender positions and the possibilities of
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