Monday 1 October 2012

Representation of race and ethnicity

POST COLONIALIST THEORY:

The Guardian: Negative representation 

  • 'This was supported to be representation of modern life in England but it is likely to be a challenge for the organisers to find an educated white middle- aged mother and black father living together with a happy family in such a set-up'. As Black fathers leave their wives as soon as they get pregnant and represents that black men cant have a education, this connects with alvardo theory as it falls in to the category of humorous and pitied.  

The Opening Ceremony: positive representation 

  • Black people and white people mixing together and growing over the years 
  • Technology is grown over the years and 
  • Franz - black people wearing white mask, mixed race children.

1 comment:

  1. WWW: There's the start of a good response here but you need a lot more for A2 level work.
    EBI: Critical error - it wasn't a Guardian article, it was the Daily Mail. They are VERY different newspapers! I did provide a link to the Guardian to help with research, but you need to be more careful when completing work. You also need much, much more detail - your points on the opening ceremony don't actually make sense on their own. I'd have accepted bullet points but you need to make your points clear and detailed.
    LR: Look again at the opening ceremony. What is your point regarding technology? How does it link to post-colonial theory? You mention Fanon but not how it relates to the text - what is your point here? Does the text reinforce or challenge Fanon's theory?

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