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
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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
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