ENGL 6310/7310 Popular Culture

Studies

Fall 2011PH 300

M 240-540Dr. David Lavery

Week Ten, 11/14/11

ENGL 6310/7310 Popular Culture

Studies

Fall 2011PH 300

M 240-540Dr. David Lavery

Week Ten, 11/14/11

Week Ten: “Race,” Racism, and Representation Week Ten: “Race,” Racism, and Representation Popular Culture StudiesPopular Culture Studies

Mini-Casebooks: Hughes, Mathis

Part Six:  “Race,” Racism and

Representation

31. Paul Gilroy—'Get up, get into it and

get involved' - Soul, Civil Rights and Black

Power

32. Jacqueline Bobo—The Color Purple:

Black Women and Cultural Readers

33. Stuart Hall—What is this 'Black' in

Black Popular Culture? (James)

34. Cornel West (interviewed by Anders

Stephanson)—Black Postmodernist

Practices

35. bell hooks—Postmodern Blackness

36. Amir Saeed—Musical Jihad

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Red Grooms, Way Down East

Grooms and NKU

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The Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith, 1915)

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Watch the Trailer

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The Race Rant

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“The Unnatural” (The X-Files, 6.19)

Watch the trailer on YouTube.

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Brother from Another Planet

(John Sayles, 1984)

Watch the entire film on YouTube.

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Race on The Daily Show

Stephen Colbert, “Minority Report”

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“Diversity Day” (The Office [US], 1.2)

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Part Six:  “Race,” Racism and Representation

31. Paul Gilroy—'Get up, get into it and get involved'

- Soul, Civil Rights, and Black Culture

Week Ten: “Race,” Racism, and Representation Week Ten: “Race,” Racism, and Representation Popular Culture StudiesPopular Culture Studies

Part Six:  “Race,” Racism and Representation

32. Jacqueline Bobo—The Color Purple: Black

Women and Cultural Readers

Stuart Hall (1932- ). Jamaican-born UK cultural theorist and sociologist.

Popular Culture StudiesPopular Culture Studies

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Part Six:  “Race,” Racism and

Representation

33. Stuart Hall—What is

this 'Black' in Black

Popular Culture? (James)

Week Ten: “Race,” Racism, and Representation Week Ten: “Race,” Racism, and Representation Popular Culture StudiesPopular Culture Studies

Part Six:  “Race,” Racism and

Representation

34. Cornel West

(interviewed by Anders

Stephanson)—Black

Postmodernist Practices

Cornel West vs. Ron Christie

Week Ten: “Race,” Racism, and Representation Week Ten: “Race,” Racism, and Representation Popular Culture StudiesPopular Culture Studies

Part Six:  “Race,” Racism

and Representation

35. bell hooks—

Postmodern Blackness

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Part Six:  “Race,” Racism and Representation

36. —Musical Jihad

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“Affirmative Action” (Curb Your

Enthusiasm, 1.9)

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Race on The Daily Show

Larry Wilmore [Wilmore on Gatesgate] | Wyatt Cenac | Aasif Mandvi [”Allah in the Family”] | The Common Controversy