{"id":41234,"date":"2025-01-12T20:43:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T20:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/mediating-diasporic-identity-observation-representation-and-the-politics-of-migrant-invisibility\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T20:43:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T20:43:46","slug":"mediating-diasporic-identity-observation-representation-and-the-politics-of-migrant-invisibility","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/mediating-diasporic-identity-observation-representation-and-the-politics-of-migrant-invisibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediating Diasporic Identity: Observation, Representation, and the Politics of Migrant (In)Visibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your post (200-300 words in length) must comment on at least one (1) <\/strong>of the visual sources or scholarly texts assigned for January 12. Your options are:<\/p>\n

Scholarly Texts<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Margo Machida, \u201cOthering: Primitivism, Orientalism, and Stereotyping,\u201d in Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary <\/em>(Duke University Press, 2008), pp. 57-117.<\/li>\n
  2. Joachim \u00d6stlund, \u201cPlaying the White Knight: Badin, Chess, and Black Self-Fashioning in Eighteenth-Century Sweden,\u201d in Heike Raphael-Hernandez and Leigh Raiford, ed.s, Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture <\/em>(University of Washington Press, 2017), pp. 98-118.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Visual Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n

    1. Images from W.E.B. Du Bois’s Albums from the African Americans in Georgia <\/em>exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Choose 2 or 3 photos from the digitized archive.<\/p>\n

    2. “Steal or No Steal?\u201d and \u201cCultural Appropriation,\u201d Kim\u2019s Convenience <\/em>(2016). See Dakota Kim\u2019s L.A. Times <\/em>articleLinks to an external site.<\/a> for cast and crew members\u2019 comments on the show\u2019s portrayal of Korean Canadians.<\/p>\n

    Your post can:<\/p>\n

    a. Critique the assigned articles and\/or chapters. Do you find an author\u2019s argument to be especially productive, problematic, or limited? Why? After reading the text, what questions do you have? <\/p>\n

    b. Elaborate on the significance of a visual source. Is it especially useful for understanding the relationship between visual culture and migration? Why? How do its formal properties communicate meaning? What specific themes and\/or issues does it comment upon? After reviewing this source, what questions do you have? <\/p>\n

    Visual Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/search\/?st=grid&co=anedub<\/p>\n