Lesson 5 - Subjects and Identity

Question 1

What is an identity?

Answer 1

-The state of having unique characteristics, identical to only oneself

-Group identity and how others see you can inform personal identity

Question 2

“It is among other things, popular cultures that ___ of making sense of our social experience, that ___ toward the events of our everyday lives, and that ___.”

~John Fiske

Answer 2

-provide us with performed frameworks of meaning of ways

-equip us with value systems by which to orient ourselves

-teach us to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate pleasures

Question 3

Why do we need an identity?

Answer 3

To see our position in the world and demand change

Question 4

Racism comes before race.
Sexism comes before ___.

Answer 4

Gender

Question 5

“Race is thus, also, the modality in which class is lived…” (Hall)

Answer 5

-The way you experience class is determined by your race

Question 6

“The major systems of oppression are interlocking.”

~Combahee River Collective

Answer 6

-Black lesbian working-class women can experience oppression from all sides (class, race, gender, sexuality)

Question 7

Viewers interact with representation in 3 different ways:

Answer 7

Dominant reading: Audience decodes message as intended and shares beliefs

Negotiation: Audience needs to adjust message to fit their own beliefs

Oppositional: Audience rejects message