While we experience our bodies as intensely personal, they are also conceptual products of the cultures in which they are socialized, act, and interact. In a capitalist consumer culture, it is predictable that bodies, including human bodies, would act as conduits for commercial enterprise. The body can effectively be used to sell a lot of things: products, image, sexual appeal, music, and the promise of emotion, among many other things, and bring in (potentially) massive sums of money. But beyond financial power, is using one’s body as a tool of commerce actually empowering? The ways in which one’s body is experienced, understood, and responded to–as an objectified tool of commerce, not intimately known and understood–will always be shaped by intersecting categories of race and gender.
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This weeks discussion has 7 parts:
1. hooks argues that representations of black female bodies in contemporary popular culture rarely subvert or critique images of black female sexuality which were part of the cultural apparatus of 19th-century racism and still shape perceptions today. (hooks 62) In about 300 words or less (less is more this time), explain hooks’ argument in a little more detail. Quote and properly cite hooks, both in-text and in your bibliography. (1/2 point)
2. How does the historical context of race and gender in the United States shape our understanding of Black female performers in music videos? Using hooks, explain in about 100 words. (1/2 point)
3. Post a current or recent music video that provides an example. (1/2 point)
- You can either post the link, OR click “Insert,” then scroll down and click “Embed,” then paste in the “Embed” code from the video on YouTube.
- To find the video’s “Embed” code, click “Share” under the video, then click “Embed,” then copy/paste the entire code into the “Embed” box in your discussion post. (If this is confusing, it’s okay to just post the link, but the discussion forum will look really exciting if the posted videos are embedded.)
- In about 50-100 words, explain whether the music video supports or contradicts hooks.Use detail from the video itself to make your case.
4. What’s for sale? (1/2 point, including both of the below sub-questions)
- What is being sold in the music video you posted? Be precise. One word might be enough; one sentence is probably enough.
- In “Emotional Consumption: Mapping Love and Masochism in an Exotic Dance Club,” what does Egan argue is being sold? (One word might be enough; one sentence is probably enough.)
5. Considering hooks’ argument, is commodifying one’s body empowering or disempowering? Why or why not? (1/4 point)
- . (Each word clicks through to a different source.)
- If you’re ONLY considering financial empowerment, then you could reasonably say that lucrative commodification of one’s body is empowering, but there’s more to power than money.
- Use about 100 words; be clear, be brief.
6. What is an interesting question, either on this topic, or linking this topic with another in our class, to guide discussion in this week’s forum? (1/4 point)
Your initial post should be around 500 words long.
7. After finishing with your own post, also post a comment on at least two of the posts of your classmates. You are welcome to post even more than 2 comments! Thoughtful, positive, questioning, and educational comments, which help to develop the group conversation, can both help others engage the subject more deeply AND improve your own grade! (1/4 point for each comment=total 1/2 point)
Make sure you’ve properly cited, including page numbers, paragraph numbers, and/or time stamps for all in-text citations(please make sure have the page numbers/time stamps/paragraph numbers for every idea or specific detail that you draw, not just direct citations (#3 for Cox, count the paragraph numbers). .And no AI
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