University:
York University
Course:
AP/HUMA1780 6.0 M | Stories in Diverse Media
Academic year:

2023
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359

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1
Author:

Nick T.

Lecture 8: Huma 1. Oppositional Gaze - Living in the Context of Jim Crow (Jim Crow is a fictional character used as an umbrella term to talk about all the state laws of segregation Oppositional Gaze: How the power relations of looking gets played out in all different types of context. Returning a gaze can result in danger for individuals. ● Looking is an act of power: Its a power dynamic What Bell Hooks means by Oppositional Gaze is a relation of a critical passage in interrogation. Returning gaze is challenging and resisting that is being imposed on someone else ● She was taught at a very young age to ignore the gaze and to not gaze back Form of overt resistance: It is to resist the projected identity and to decentre the power that enables this projection The use of the term phallocentric: Focuses of the male gaze (hetaronormative context) as a form of sexual objectification. Returning the gaze does not always have to be a direct stare at a individual but can be a represented through presence and nonverbal messages Faith Ringgold: Artist & Activist ● Faith Ringgold on fighting to get women and African-American artists into museums and the power of art. I am Not your N**ro - Might be on the TEST **** ● View the aspects of art ● Consider irony ● The use of voice overs and narration ● In what ways is an oppositional gaze used by raoul peck to reduce the racism in the united states - How does he return the gaze in a context like that