Your post (200-300 words in length) must comment on at least one (1) of the visual sources or scholarly texts assigned for January 12. Your options are:
Scholarly Texts
- Margo Machida, “Othering: Primitivism, Orientalism, and Stereotyping,” in Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2008), pp. 57-117.
- Joachim Östlund, “Playing the White Knight: Badin, Chess, and Black Self-Fashioning in Eighteenth-Century Sweden,” in Heike Raphael-Hernandez and Leigh Raiford, ed.s, Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture (University of Washington Press, 2017), pp. 98-118.
Visual Sources
1. Images from W.E.B. Du Bois’s Albums from the African Americans in Georgia exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Choose 2 or 3 photos from the digitized archive.
2. “Steal or No Steal?” and “Cultural Appropriation,” Kim’s Convenience (2016). See Dakota Kim’s L.A. Times articleLinks to an external site. for cast and crew members’ comments on the show’s portrayal of Korean Canadians.
Your post can:
a. Critique the assigned articles and/or chapters. Do you find an author’s argument to be especially productive, problematic, or limited? Why? After reading the text, what questions do you have?
b. Elaborate on the significance of a visual source. Is it especially useful for understanding the relationship between visual culture and migration? Why? How do its formal properties communicate meaning? What specific themes and/or issues does it comment upon? After reviewing this source, what questions do you have?
Visual Sources:
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&co=anedub