URGENT: 200-500 small word writing assignment using attached lecture slides and 2 small quotes given in an essay.
Actual Directions:
On page 22 of his essay, David Theo Goldberg writes, “to wrest control over one’s culture is to pry loose the hold over naming and (self-)representation. This is a first step to self-determination, for it enables one to assert power over self-definition.”
On the final page of her essay, Audre Lorde writes, “The future of our earth may depend upon the ability of all women to identify and develop new definitions of power and new patterns of relating across difference. The old definitions have not served us, nor the earth that supports us. The old patterns, no matter how cleverly rearranged to imitate progress, still condemn us to cosmetically altered repetitions of the same old exchanges, the same old guilt, hatred, recrimination, lamentation, and suspicion.”
Consider these quotes together and of what we learned in lecture this week. What do you think Lorde and Goldberg mean by these statements? What are they saying about the relationship between culture, communication, and power? What role do you—as a student of intercultural communication—think that naming and identifying difference or power dynamics might have on how we communicate with others?
Attached Lecture Link, also in file attached (no sign up needed):
https://www.canva.com/design/DAF7SVUIUoU/Lht_kT63Qq6EDMvh8Hl1pw/edit