My favorite blog post this year is "What does your name say about you?"
My favorite blog post that I chose has many connections to what we have been talking about in class and I enjoyed writing it very much. I think that this quarter I definitely dropped the ball on blogging. I have almost no blogs for the month of April and only two for May. But do think that my blogging this quarter has greatly improved. I'm not going to lie, at the beginning of this year blogging was much more of a chore to me than something I enjoyed. But, as the year has progressed I have come to really enjoy blogging and am so glad I am in a class that does it. Blogging has made me more comfortable writing and forced me to make connections from out class to the real world. Although I may not continue blogging after this class I will surely (shirley?) continue making connections from the news to my life.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
American Studies Day
Even though American Studies Day was almost five days ago, it seems that everything I consume relates back to this day. I thought the Day was a perfect way to help cap off a wonderful year in the class that I felt I have gown the most in. After American Studies Day i discovered that my older sister often attends Slam Poetry events in her college town of St. Paul. This excited me because I enjoyed the Slam Poets that came so much and want to attend the Louder Than A Bomb festival next year. In fact Thursday night I went home and found this clip on YouTube:
I have watched this clip several time and continue to get goosebumps.
Another encounter I have had with American Studies Day has to do with Mr. B's TV Tokenism. One of my favorite shows is Friday Night Lights. The fourth season recently started and Saturday Afternoon I sat down at my computer to watch the episode I had missed. While watching it I witnessed the very thing we had talked about the day before. Although I cannot figure out embed a clip from Hulu, I can send you to this link and tell you to start watching at 23:40 and continue watching until 25:54.
The "token" black character in the scene is referred to as being some kind of "voodoo" women. This is exactly how the medical examiner in CSI was referred to from the clip we waatched in class and both characters are black. I think this strengthens Mr. B's argument because of the similarities between the two scenes. Just as Mr. B argues, minority characters although being put in positions of authority are the roles are very 2-dimentional. Something else that I noticed in this scene was that the "token" black character was actually very fair skinned. She fulfilled the requirement of a minority in the show but has fair skin and looks "white".
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