Midterm

Question 1

John Story Popular Culture parts?

Answer 1

Culture
Ideology
Popular Culture

Question 2

Story on Ideology

Answer 2

*ideas behind a text- implicit or explicit

A body of ideas articulated by a particular group of people

A masking/concealment/distortion

Use of forms (Rom Coms)

Question 3

Raymond Williams on Culture

Answer 3

1.High Art
general process of intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic development
Artists, poets, philos

2. A particular way of life of a people, a period, or a group
   baseball as metaphor
3. Culture as occasion for creating meaning
   the works and processes of intellectual and artistic activity

Question 4

Robert Lee “Yellow face”

Answer 4

creates the unmistakably oriental
defines oriental as racial opposition to whiteness
*slanted eyes, overbite

6 Faces of the oriental:
Pollutant
Deviant
Model Minority
Coolie: unfree, servile
from economic anxiety 
threat to white working man's family
working class consciousness 
Yellow Peril
Gook

Question 5

Kiplings White mans Burden

Answer 5

imperialism as moral duty

yellowface example

Question 6

Williams on Popular culture

Answer 6

No simple contrast between high and popular culture
high culture influenced by pop culture
accessibility- differences in accesses of cultures ofest by interaction between spheres

Question 7

Lee, The Third Sex

Answer 7

defined as ambiguous, foreign, a threat
constructed as a way to separate races

men: left labor jobs joined domestic life
blending ideas of femininity

women: prostitutes
intrude on cult of dom with sexuality
hypersexual- breaks pure womanhood concept

*Significance:
Breaks prevailing normality by changing roles 
deviants of norms 
fear of outsiders
distancing races, way to separate

Question 8

Femininity

Answer 8

Dragon lady:
highly seductive
manipulative
never to be trusted

Lotus Blossom:
domestic, subservient
eager to please

Suzie pretends to be dragon lady when really lotus
Homax wants her to remain “chinese”- crisis of too much similarity

Comparitive ethnic moralities
idea that moral action determined by ethnic and racial differences
suzie has to remain different

Question 9

Edward Siad

Answer 9

differences between orient and occident

in America
flatten/boil down India to a place of Hindu spirit removing complicated syncretic history
*deep interest in india for what may be missing from a collective and individual american life