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Dimensions of Culture III - Imagination

Maya Angelou  Autobiography (fictionalized, literary) ◦ Implements her own imagination in certain scenes, so fictionalized  Imaginary conversation on page 91 ◦ Colorful, set in italics to make a distinction (makes it clear it's being made up) ◦ Purpose: Shows her perception of her mother, champion; exaggerating it to “tell friends” to make it more entertaining ◦ Says “vegetarian” instead of “veterinarian” to imply it was a situation she imagined in her head at the time

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Imagine: tool you use to create, process & product, came from the root word "imago" Imago: the process where an insect becomes something it's supposed to be; everything & everyone is an imago before producing/becomming what they're supposed to do/be Representation: the translation of reality into an object in a text or artwork for the purpose of analyzing Intertextuality: the reoccuring referencing/hybridizing text across a time period or history Appropriation: the borrowing of text for ideological purpose Propaganda: came from the word "propagate", text with the purpose to "plant seed", to persuade, to form hegemony Conventional reading: interpretation of a text as closed, hegemonic, "obvious", straight-forward, often from people with easy access to power Oppositional reading: interpretation of a text as open, variable, anti-hegemonic, often from people with lack of access to power Stylistic appropration: the borrowing of a style or genre for the purpose of oppositional reading; the way of how the text is expressed Myth/Mythologies: story that uses some form of representation, an imaginative act that is expressed through a medium. Mythologies is a series of myths. Progressive Humanism: where and when you are alive matters, opposite from Museum of Man exhibits of all humans are the same deep down Porous: permeable boundaries, texts are porous, penetrable, easy for element to pass in or out Text combination: the combining of two kind of texts to create a new text "Aura": the aura of an original text, often disappear as representation of representation of the original over time Text: a presentation that can be analyzed Reinvented: Re-presented, made into different objects over time Imitations and Improvisations: what produced public culture Zoot Suit: Earliest form of counterculture, hyperbole, exaggeration, stylistic warfare, competing consensus Consensus: Universal or collective agreement, popular consent Performance: A text that is delivered through gestures, movements, and interaction with an audience, the body is the medium, ephemeral and of the moment, easy to be assume to be frivolous, require skills to analyze what the author is trying to convey at the moment Color lines: the boundaries that seperate the lives and experience of people of color and white Double-consciousness: unreconciable double identities (ex. being Black and American), know you are supposed to be one way but being judged a different way Movements of 1960s: begin with enough people feeling double-consciousness, trying to reconcile their double identities, shift from older people striving for rights to student movements

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Discussion Midterm Review  M. Butterfly ◦ Concepts: Orientalism  Zoot Suit ◦ During the Zoot Suit riot, the brother's face changes to the “pachuco” (looking menacing) ▪ Pachucos aren't initially angry/violent: they become like that in retaliation to abuse from society ▪ Becomes an Aztec Warrior (loin cloth), tried to say they were going against society because of their Aztec roots because that's what Aztecs would do  We are violent, we're warriors and you should fear us and obey us ▪ Aztlan (mythical homeland), key symbol of Chicano Movement, chicanos are coming back to their roots (metaphorically reconquering the land they believe is theirs)  Family of Man Critique ◦ Critiqued how we see ourselves vs how we see other cultures ◦ Weren't any images of African Americans in everyday experience (mainly whites) ◦ Blacks were characterized as savages, gender misinterpreted ◦ Lynching photograph had to be removed from some newspaper (but was significant to U.S. History) ◦ MESSAGE: The winners write history ▪ Sands off the rough edges of history, fails to acknowledge the suffering, etc.  Medgar Evers ◦ Field secretary of Mississippi NAACP during height of Civil Rights Movement ◦ Assassinated for his participation in NAACP ◦ Because of his death, he was referenced a lot during the Civil Rights Movement in multimedia (songs, etc.) ▪ “Only a Pawn in Their Game” - Bob Dylan ▪ “Mississippi Goddam” - Nina Simone  Culture - Similarities in group, “part of the total range of human action which is socially rather than biologically transmitted (nurture rather than nature) ◦ Public Culture – Derived from large society as opposed to just individuals, links culture to politics (combination of all the things that bring together society) ▪ Imaginary Community  in order to understand how society stays together, we have to take into account how people imagine themselves to be a part of a community ▪ Nationalism  Pride in your own country, can be problematic ▪ Civic Republicanism  Having a say in what goes on, civic duty ▪ Egalitarianism (equality) ◦ Lived Culture ▪ Traditions, cultures, practices ◦ Popular Culture ▪ “Stuff,” usually commercialized, geared towards the people of the society ▪ Fleeting (here one day, gone the next), trends ◦ True Culture ▪ The “high-low” split in the class, culture of the “high” class, sophisticated ▪ Loaded term ◦ Folk Culture ▪ “Mini” culture in a specific region (accents, big events, etc) ▪ Rural, “authentic” ▪ Living in relative isolation, not urban  Ideology ◦ “A system of ideas, assumptions, and beliefs” ◦ Political, religious, gender  Intertextuality ◦ Connections between texts  Mass Culture – Depends on mode of transportation ◦ Media as opposed to people usually ◦ Social construct ◦ Homogenizes various group of people (flattens out the differences)  Representation ◦ Represent: cutting, editing, trying to present reality but not completely accurately due to restraints (on purpose or incidental)

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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War Jane Mayer Panic  Secretly ordered by the Regan Administration, Dick Cheney was trained to step in as president if the chain of command was compromised to ensure the “continuity- of-government.  When 9/11 happened, Cheney was the one in command.  Anthrax was sent to a Senator on October 17, 2001 and to the White House on October 18, 2001.  Cheney realized how open to a biological attack the US was and quickly convinced Bush to support a bioterrorism-preparedness program.  Cheney even feared for his live and hide in a undisclosed location.  Fear in the White House escalated after 9/11 and the government quickly focused on the people responsible for 9/11 – Al Queda.  Cheney became paranoid and traveled with gear to protect himself from attack.  The executive branch was so focused on the Soviet Union that they ignored the treats coming from Al Queda and even after finding out where they went wrong, Bush and Cheney downplayed their mistakes.  Bush felt that Bin Laden was belittling the US, but there were too many things in the way for him to retaliate, such as laws and morals.  Bush and Cheney both determined to gain more power for the executive branch.  Cheney saw terrorists as ultimate enemies and, by any means, be destroyed.  The Bush Administration hired a group of the best and greatest lawyers to justify any action the government takes. The group of lawyers managed to justify torture, indefinite detention of suspects, suspend habeas corpus, and much more.  The Bush Administration changed the executive branch more than any other presidential administration before it. They even authorized violations of the Geneva Convention, which was the treaty after WWII that America had a BIG part in creating.  America is horribly dealing with terrorism by undercutting their own laws and morals, while many other nations had faced the same challenges, but did not degraded themselves like America. Men of Zeal  Congress vetoed a proposal to expand the executive powers, but the Bush Administration’s lawyers dismissed the fact that Congress could limit the president’s power in warfare. They completely ignored the Congress and the Judicial Department supported the Bush Administration through John Yoo.  In the view of the lawyers, all statutes limiting the presidential power could be ignored, giving Bush power to do anything. The lawyers made anything illegal done by the president legal. Bush got the powers of a King and his ego got big.  David Addington, with his stubborn ideas of unlimited presidential power, and John Yoo, with his position in the OLC to legalize anything, was the backbone to the actions taken by the executive branch in response to 9/11.

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Kaiser Article  Secondary source, written in 1997  Context: ◦ Prague Spring 1968 ◦ Influence of Mao Zedong (China) ▪ Little Red Book ▪ Spread Communism in Asia ▪ Cultural Revolution ◦ Vietnam War ◦ Protests in Italy, Paris, West Germany ◦ SDS ◦ Free Speech Movement at UC Berkley ▪ Mario Savio ◦ Harlem and areas surrounding Columbia campus ▪ Tensions about what Columbia wants to do  Want to build gym, locals don't think they will have access so they cause ruckus ◦ Black Power

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