AMS Final Study Guide

Dances danced to Bebop take ond the lindy pass over and the apple Jack emerged-both also seen as resistive double v double clip (time refers to the speed in bebop) -A pillow slip of music that foc employ on asymmetry and dissonance, made so color-hot artists loudest play it (involved technological mastering), dozens of improve that moved away from sheet music. Very verbalise(prenominal) to Jim H shutd avowrix victorious an Ameri nates style (Jazz) and trans formulateing It to fit a upstart market-gardening with the wave of Immigrants. Often played In clubs where coot suitors loite release, acted as a form of musical protest and resistance against the sinlessness mainstream Jazz.Birth of a new contour of Jazz, one that symbolizes youth and switch over within American society. Shifted focus from color/swing black/ bebop B leanrs Program An emergency heighten motor plan that was extremely successful at meeting its goal of planning cheap labor. -After WI on that point were several bracers (manual laborers) that stopped working as farm laborers on their own side of the border and came to El Paso center to be recruited for agricultural labor. Bracers translates as well manual laborer who works with arms The architectural plan was started in 1942 by FED and it allowed Mexican agricultural laborers to deposit a fly-by-night contract.Mexico was viewed as a ingredient of the Allies during WI. Brought hundreds of thousands of Mexican tidy sum to the U. S and fostered the Idea that Mexican workers were entirely dispensable and that once they were no longer 1942 and 1947 continued after WWW Operation wetbacks MM Mexican and Mexican Americans who were U. S citizens or legal residents deported back to Mexico. Buffalo consign -Creator of the popular commercial entertainment business Buffalo Bills, Wild tungsten from 1883-1916, that reduced complex in timets into romanticizes scenes of the marge. The creator, William F. Codswallop Bill-the ma in attraction of the bespeak- because he was a real man of the frontier who became popular for killing a young Indian warrior give eard Yellow Hand, through scalping. -Led peck to believe the acts during the show were real, even though they were often traumatized and left out the Indians side of the written report -scenes drawn from buffalo bills dime novels and was considered American home(a) entertainment and exemplified American history in an inaccurate way.Buffalo bill is considered the hero and a self-made man. Ric sternly Slotting Reading From reading Cultural US Imperialism. -Romanticizes view of the American frontier, non an accurate representation. Double -An attempt by African Americans soldiers during WWW advantage at home (against discrimi soil) and victory abroad with the war. By fighting in the war, they hoped to gain respect and become equals. It was a response to what happened during WI, biddy they were promised equality if they fought in the war, neverthele ss it never happened. It was an attempt by black soldiers in WWW to demonstrate that by helping to win victory in the war, that they could establish conditions domestically for victory over discrimination. Its immediate effect was the end of racial discrimination in the forces services -A Philip Randolph and the march on Washington -Double V, double time related to bebop and coot suit, each mannikins or resistance and fighting the war at home. The Double V track down became a symbol of pride for Black Americans during a time when Jim Crows laws were universal and so many of he rights that soldiers fought for abroad were denied them at home.Article from The Pittsburgh Courier from jam Thompson small acts of resistance that led to a innovation during the civil rights exercise Gill Scott-Heron A Jazz and Spoken word musician, Scott-Herons songs discussed such matters as the superficiality of media and consumerism, as well as the conceit that true revolution is non seen through publicity solely through the actions of the people that go unpublished. Singer to The Revolution Will Not Be Televised in 1970, it was a politically conscious hip hop song, that explained how revolution is not name in hinges that give us comfort like television.It questions where we find resistance, shows how racial issues begin from within and laws atomic number 18 respectable temporary solutions to a apparently permanent problem. -If you want revolution, you cant sit and wait for it to come on your TV. prepare Talking close to racial equality and thus the revolution allow not be put on television it will be live, as said in the last line. -Nines ad The revolution will be not be televised Yet it was -The significance to class views. Counter market-gardenings Hurricane gallop The 2005 Hurricane that devastated Louisiana and, most famously, New Orleans after the levees broke.There was a heavy(a) disparity between the opinions of the people on the ground and those portrayed by the televised news casting. The film Trouble the Water (2008), addressed the persuasion that livestock was a man-made disaster opposed to a natural one. Showed the depths of morphologic racialism in that at that place was an unequal distribution of resources base on race. -African Americans were denied assistance, and rescuing was prioritize to whites. In addition, white housing and tourist attractions were restored ofttimes hot than black neighborhoods and housing.Demonstrates how racism is still prevalent in society even after the Civil rights Movement, shows how solving racial issues begins from within, and laws are Just temporary solutions to a seemingly permanent problem. Institutional Racism Racism that is hard to see but usually is cockeyeder racism. institutionalized racism, hegemony widespread agreement that things were get better but were truly not for certain colors and unforesightful people Elevation - commencement ceremony truly massed produced suburbs th at had identical designs to lower housing costs.K right awayn as the archetype for postwar suburbs across the country -In 1957, Alfred Levity created the first Elevation, a suburban area of standardized homes that rated several suburbs and a defined middle class. It became a symbol of the American dream, but was restricted to white families only, a sort out of the housing segregation seen back then. Displays the hegemony of racial inequality ideologies, keeping races segregated and whites as hypernym and blacks and others as inferior. -All residents must be Caucasian so owners had business because whites wouldnt live there otherwise.Documentary washing The power of illusion deal with systemic racism in the development of suburbs and the impact of unsighted policy. FAA specifically redline families of color. White flight Malcolm Little The birth name given to Malcolm X, a black Muslim civil rights activist Was part of nation of Islam? Began as a coot suit wearing hustler In Ro bin Kellys Riddle of the Coot, he tells the story of Malcolm Little, also known as Malcolm X, a young African American growing up during the Coot fit out era and an increasing time of forming American identities.He acquired all of the fashionable adornments of the time such as the coot suit and the conk to erase his background and identity. -Committed a series of burglaries targeting wealthy white families He his Scottish maternal grandpa -He endured a lot of pain and self-degradation to kook like a Whitman because he internalized the idea that black people were inferior and white people were sterling(prenominal). Shows the American values at the time, and the segregation of races despite the melting plenteousness mentality.McDonalds A multinational corporation which has, in the past, been indicative of social and frugal challenges created by multinational corporation operations. The worlds largest chain of hamburger fast solid food restaurants cosmopolitan since it is a mult inational company, as talked roughly in McDonalds in Beijing by Hanging Yawn. -Represents Americanization and American exceptionalness by instilling American culture onto there countries through advanced technologies and products.American globalization is spreading American culture and ideologies worldwide, trying to force conformity among other nations to merge the superior American culture. Im loving it expo transnational going beyond national boundaries or interests Michael Jordan -Served as an analog to the self-made man and also hinted at how rationalization occurs as we view professional basketball players and athletes in general. -Michael Jordan is arguably one of the dandyest basketball players in the NAB. He Joined the Bulls in 1984 and made the team come back alive.Jordan was certainly the most efficaciously marketed professional sports player and credited for reservation NAB popular. Famous American basketball player that played on the Chicago Bulls from 1984 to 1998. Was the worlds first globalizes sports figure, fitting the global face of Nikkei advertisements worldwide. Importance represents the transnational of Nikkei and the globalization of American culture and values worldwide. Self-made man Marketing based on race blackness as a marketing scheme Nikkei -A transnational cooperation. Just do it One of the first companies to actually hold a worldwide advertising campaign for its products. Use top athletes to sponsor their products and produces single products in multiple countries ex air Max penny is inspired by a basketball player whose nickname is Penny Shoe contains 52 separate components produced in five different countries -Just do it Is the slogan of Nikkei, which is a transnational corporation. It shows that beyond American imperialism of advancing technologies and products, there is also a globalization of American ideals being sold, a form of cultural imperialism.Demonstrates how the termination of American ideals spreads past US borders, using product and sale of fabricate goods as a vessel of transport. An example of the spread of American ideas and ideologies sitcom suburbs -cookie cutter homes -The sasss model of similar houses with an emphasis on the white middle class family. These suburbs were often an example of institutional racial segregation, with red zone areas being unable to get loans and land development. -Sitcoms such as Leave it to Beaver and Father Knows Best in the asses that portrayed a nuclear family living in the suburbs.Portrayed the transmission of gender roles and the ideals of a traditionalistic family, for example women as the housewife that should clean cook and raise the kids, trance men are the ones to work outside the house. Represents hegemonic forces reinforcing gender inequality ideologies onto the nation during a time that women were fighting for their independence. An example of state sanctioned racism towards African American homeowners. similarly an example of the family unit becoming socially prominent.Sleepy Lagoon Murder/Hank Leaners -Trial began in 1942 Jose was found on the ground already stabbed and beaten The boys went into the house and fought, came outside and punched Jose but was not responsible for his destruction Trial went on for 3 months 12 defendants found guilty Hank was sentenced to liveliness history After several advocates tried o get boys out of throw away and finally did, Hank walked out of Jail with a coot suit on -Race was the primordial part of the insurrection Riots broke out between Mexican-Americans and army violence stationed in LA.White Americans believed coot suits were extravagant and unpatriotic during war time. While Mexican Americans saw the trial as discriminatory. Coot Suit Riots (1943) The trials found these Mexican-Americans guilty without any fit evidence because of their race presumed to be dangerous and guilty. Social model of impediment The idea of the social model of hindrance was presente d by guest lecturer, Ryan Cartridge. It suggests that there is a public view that there is something inherently different about those we consider to be Disabled.As such, there are institutional precedents to treat those with disabilities differently. Race can influence this -White male is seen as the ideal/ normal in our society, so the incapacitate are held to this standard impairment + scatterbrained macrocosm in a wheelchair limits the person, but not as much as society makes it out to be. -Overcoming narrative Propaganda that says despite the disability people can do things. -Often parameterized -Ex someone with down syndrome is asked to the prom is put in the newspaper, hen this shouldnt be a big deal If the disabled can do it then so can you. Thus saying that if disabled people want to succeed at something, they only have to try hard. -This type of propaganda is used in the dual purpose of motivating those without disabilities, while at the same time degrading those with di sabilities, by saying that what a normal person has to pommel is equivalent to what a disabled person has to overcome. Concept Explanations international and Transnational Corporation -The idea that the economy, and especially large corporations, are increasingly operate across several nations.As such, they have vested interests in multiple countries and their economies. Overall the idea that corporations now have global effects rather than local ones -Watson account statement Transnational describes a condition by which people, commodities, and ideas literally cross get around national boundaries and are not identified with a single bottom of origin. Transnational Corporations are popularly regarded as the clearest expressions of this new adaptation(transnational) Mode of production controlled from a headquarters complex located somewhere in the First World -Watson ReadingTransnational, Localization, and Fast Foods in East Asia -McDonalds-localization rather than transnation al -Nikkei -Coca-Cola American Capitalism Enlightened sexism -Douglass definition Enlightened Sexism is a response, mensurable or not, to the perceived threat of a new gender regime. -insists the women have made plenty of progress because of feminism-aka full equality has allegedly been achieved So now its okay to have sexist stereotypes of girls and women because its funny since we obsessing over one man, because we all know women arent actually like that Where the Girls atomic number 18Enlightened Sexism -goes achieve in hand with embedded feminism. American Dream-Americas possibilities are bound to select groups of people, in this case women are left out Frontier dissertation -The Thesis proposed by American historian Frederick Turner in 1893. It was the idea that American democracy/identity was established by the American Frontier. He stressed that by moving the frontier line it shaped America.. Gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier. Also by pushing out t he frontier America was cutting ties with British culture and customs. The idea was that the frontier land was free Oh wait.Native Americans were there first. The frontier is a place where savagery and civilization meet. Domesticating nature -Homestead Act of 1862 write by Lincoln at the beginning/during the Civil War. Meant that Union supporters were the ones given(p) land Any person Who has never borne arms against the United States Government. -First apt(p) 160 acres, increased to 640 acres in 1904. This in itself sets up white privilege through the descendants of homesteaders. Manifest Destiny American conglomerate The American Empire is the idea that America has, in its past, utilized military tactics to increase land and resource holdings.The Philippines example from class taking them for their own good, as well as the Spanish-American war of 1896 -Hegemony, -American Exceptionalness -American imperialism (ex double birdie spreading its wings over many countries) Reading concept explanation What does the author mean? What does it mean in a larger setting? Example outside of class The Globalization of Michael Jordan by Walter Leveler The September 11 horrors raised, in the most stark and bloody terms, questions about the new capitalism that had shaped American-led globalization of the previous thirty years (165-66).The terrorists who committed the crimes of 9-11 were a part of AH Qaeda, a religious organization that hated the US for debasing their homelands and Saudi Arabia. The terrorists saw the US as the source of capitalism which they hate. Where the Girls Are by Susan Douglas American women today are a bundle of contradiction in termss because much of the media imagery we grew up with was itself filled with mixed messages about what women should and should not do, what women could and could not be. This was true in the asses and it is true today (9). The American woman has thus emerged as a bundle of contradictions, seeking to be simultaneou sly passive and active, stark(a) and diet, selfish and selfless, thrifty and profligate, daring and scared, and who had better know which persona to brook when double standards The media has done number of things to confuse the roles of women. One such example is the producer ethos versus consumer ethos. At first the media was portraying a producer ethos, but then there was a conflict, because they needed consumers to consume the produce of the producers.Therein lays contradiction nature of the media imposition on women. Magazines pageants Double V, Double Time Bebops political science of Style by Eric Lott Bebop was about asking disciplined imagination alive and answerable to the social change of the time (597). Bebop was not protest music but it was played during a time of protest. I would say that according to black they saw it as more of their own thing not a disintegration Something they had and whites didnt,. It was something for them to identify with. It was kind of like a voice for them Id say, not so much a rebellion if that makes sense at all. And while bebop said there was a riot going on, it was hardly protest music (597) -Double V- African Americans deficient equality at home and actor in Germany -Bebop fast paced, lots of solos, said to be too loud and aggressive -Wanted something that whites couldnt play. Identity for blacks trade the way people think along with the times, opening up the intelligence -Bebop was about making a change for blacks, a social change -Bebop, which breaks the paradigms established by its contemporaries, was seen as rebellious to WHITES and seen by blacks as something that was in full theirs. White culture interpret it as another coot suit riot -Punk Rock/metal, EDM? , youth in revolt, counter-culture in general Disability and the defense of Inequality in American History by Douglas Boonton Thus, while disabled people can be considered one of the minority groups historically charge inferior status and subjecte d to discrimination, disability has functioned for all such groups as a sign of and Justification of inferiority (34). Disability has been used to unloosen other historically inferior groups Boonton mentions Womens suffrage, African American civil rights, and restriction of immigration -Women were deemed too emotional to vote, to have rights. Emotionality was used as a disability against women o say that they werent good enough -Race was used as a disability saying that others were inferior because of something like blindness, deafness, mental illness to justify segregation and immigration restrictions Disability that they werent as highly-developed.People were too weak. Didnt look strong enoughcouldnt enter US- immigration restriction -The same reasons/differences that are used to assign inferiority and give rise to discrimination are the same reasons the people with disabilities use to argue for were helping out lesser races but really we were going in for land and resources babe ?Immigrations exclusion acts -Early twentieth century you look like you have poor physique- cant emigrate 1903- epilepsy, insanity- cant immigrate 1907-mental or physical defect which may affect you-cant immigrate haunt America by Patricia Limerick Somewhere in the asses, the term frontier might allow a crucial shift, toward the reality of la frontier and away from the conjuration of the frontier. That shift in meaning will be the measure of great change in this nations understanding of its own origins (92). She argues that overall it is not real useful to look back at ones story since all this does is make an individual conscience of the fear to repeat it, and that the only way to look is through an action. Says that by the white mans conquest we have intertwined the lives of native Americans and Anglo Saxons and we now have a more Joined nation through the tragedies undergo by both sides. -In terms of la frontier this is reference to the Mexican American border. Wild west ma nifest destiny -The Last Samurai, you can literally draw direct parallels from white men pushing west in America to the new Chinese organization extermination of the old Samurai ay of life Cultural studies scholar Priscilla Wald Institutional racism and structural violence dispense the assumption that the distribution of power through which the state regulates life is a form of violence (191). Structural and institutional racism see the shipway in which people of color are disadvantaged by government where it is avoidable -They arent given the same opportunities or help as white people -The way that the government doesnt help these struggling races is a how there is structural and institutional racism and it is an act of violence even though it is not direct physical violence. Ignoring them is violence Individual vs.. Institutional racism natural disaster vs.. Structural violence Hurricane Strain blacks not helped.Tourist (white) separate of the city rebuilt 100% but dominantly b lack neighborhoods still devastated. Government said they would come in to help but never did. American Studies is about making connections and asking good questions, and then making an argument based on the appropriate evidence. Your stress should engage with the ideas and arguments of at least quadruple different primary or secondary texts from class. The primary texts can include any of the films, songs, novels, memoirs, or poems that we have covered so far in class.Your essay should at least cite one primary or secondary text (but no more than two) from before the midterm. An exemplary essay will have a clearly stated argument that is developed through your examples/ evidence. (You might even want to underline your argument to be absolutely clear). Be sure to explain and analyze the connections you are making between the texts and/or course themes that you are citing. You are not limited to material explicitly discussed in lecture and discussion and, in fact, are encouraged t o cite examples that have not been discussed in lecture and discussion as it will reveal