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What is the Occident?
the west
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provided a rationalization for European colonialism based on a self-serving history in which the "West" constructed the "East"
Orientalism
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Represented as exotic, mysterious, place of sand, harems, and belly dancers
The Orient
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Predominance of certain ideas as more influential than others (in no-totalitarian states)
Hegemony
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Curious George is an example of ____
Occidentalism
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Who argued that meaning is created through discourse/language?
Stuart Hall
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Who wrote the book Orientalism?
Edward Said
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Who made the parallel between Edward Said's theory and Curious George?
Chao
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Who is associated with the history of sexuality?
Michel Foucault
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Who considers how the story and illustration about Alice and the Wonderland are shaped by (and how the also shape) cultural events in the specific historical context?
Armstrong
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What story shows that control appetite/regulate desire become essential to successful growing up as elite, non-deviant, Western woman
Alice and the Wonderland
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intentionally selected, organized, placed in specific order and location, and include a narrative explanation that interprets the exhibited material
curated
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what makes something art?
when it has been curated by a curator
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graphic novel about the Holocaust
Maus
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What were the Jews represented as?
mice
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What were the Nazi's represented as?
Cats
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Who were the frogs?
the French
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Who are the pigs?
The Poles
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Graphic novel about a girls childhood
Persepolis
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Who wrote Persepolis?
Marjane Satrapi
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Who wrote Maus?
Art Spiegelman
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Graphic Novel that was also a memoir about her and her dad and sexuality
Fun Home
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Who wrote Fun Home?
Alison Bechdel
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a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature, creation, and appreciation of beauty (including art and taste)
aesthetics
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What are the branches of philosophy (as developed in the modern era)?
- epistemology
- metaphysics/ontology
- ethics
- political philosophy
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Who wrote the Critique of Aesthetic Judgement?
Immanuel Kant
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who shared a drastically condensed version of Kant's explanation of beauty, art, and why people like stuff
Douglas Wolk
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Who wrote "avant-garde and Kitsch"?
Clement Greenberg
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resists the degraduation of culture, focus on medium; the imitation of imitating
avant-garde
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something different (____) develops in avant-garde that is substitution fro 'real' art
kitsch
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Who wrote Distinctions: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Pierre Bourdieu
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products of education and part of cultural capital
appreciation and good taste
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experiences as natural pleasure (even though learning effect)
internalized code
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What are some different theories of justice?
- communitarian
- contractarianism
- egalitarianism
- utilitarianism
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Who wrote about the New Jim Crow?
Michelle Alexander
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Felon Label = ?
Second Class Citizenship
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legal discrimination against an established caste
The New Jim Crow
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unanimous decison - Congress can prohibit possesion of sawed off shotgun bc that sort of weapon is not related to us in a "well regulated militia"
US v. Miller
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decision - civilian has right to keep handgun in home for self-defense
DC v Heller
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decision - due process clause of 14th amendment limits power of city to outlaw possession of handguns by civilians
McDonald vs. Chicago
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Who posted the "Why Doesn't America Read Anymore?"
NPR
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Who wrote about the Moral Bucket list?
David Brooks
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