Movie Night???

Let's do movie night!!!

Post with 1)Potential Times/Places 2) Potential movies 3) snack and food ideas!

Self-Evaluations

SENIORS: THOMAS, REBECCA, CANDACE, LAURA

Please self-evaluate your class performance. Refer to the following questions:

1. Attendance (10%): Have you been present in class (you are permitted 2 tardies and can miss 1 class)? Have you attended at least 1 field trip?

2. Participation (20%): Have you been a participant in class discussions, either as an active listener and/or contributor?

3. Facilitation (20%): Did the questions you post on the blog spark conversation? Did you engage in the material/encourage discussion?

4. Blog (10%): Did you complete your blog post every week? Did you engage with the questions?

5. Creative Project (20%): How did you connect your experience in class with the greater Queer/API community? What did you think was valuable inside and outside our class. Expand on your thoughts about the class and overall learning experience.

6. Syllabus/Reader (20%): Did you find/read materials for next year's syllabus?

Our Syllabus

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zha5ypJPlPjpQ6BW0bjz3UD5LkvurrTDzfeHh-4-zOA/edit?hl=en&authkey=CLrsv7IP

Feel free to edit =]

4/20 (lol) Questions

1.) "If there is a color hierarchy among the races, it seems to get darker at the bottom." To what extent do you think that skin color determines where one stands within this racial hierarchy? Do you think there are other important factors that determine one's placement?

2.) "In Search of the Right Spouse" establishes interracial relationships as an aversion to family dynamics or characteristics one has associated with their ethnic group. Do you think that in an interracial relationship things can just be as simple as "a natural preference" for a certain race or are said preferences always socially constructed? Can there be interracial relationships without power politics built on solid love? Is this piece still relevant, considering it was published in 1995?

3.) In previous readings, we came upon the argument that the struggle of being a racial minority is equivalent to that of being a sexual one. How do the viewpoints in the Convergence of Passing zones support or refute this idea? Do you agree?

Also feel free to respond to any other part of the readings you would like to address. :)

Timeline of Final Tasks

• April 13th: Finalize readings

• April 20th: Hard copies of readings due + Finalize course/syllabus requirements*

• April 29th: Self evaluations due

• May 4th: Peer evaluations due (email to Prof. Suh)




• *Hanna and Johnny will work on drafting a course description

Creative Project: Due April 27th

Asian American Adolescents

Please respond to any of the following questions, or respond to another part of the readings that you wish to address:

Powershowgirl: Unaccessorized

1. . "Powershowgirl: unaccessorized" was originally written for a solo stage act. How do you envision this being performed? How does the motif of performativity pervade and interact with the content of the piece--in particular, how Rich alternately claims, rebels against, and reconstructs his various identities?

Curry Potatoes and Rainbow Banners

2. Respond to the following Reginald Shepherd quotation that Chisty cites:

"My feelings about men are too entangled with my feelings about white men, and my feelings about white men too entangled with my feelings about white people and about black people, especially black men... How to determine how much is racial and how much is sexual when the two are so entwined that they are, in practice, identical?"

Why does Chisty identify so strongly with this statement?

Undressing the Normal

3. How do the personal accounts in this selection validate and/or challenge the results and assumptions of the two studies on API adolescent sexual behavior?