31 Aug Philippine-American War
READ Nerissa Balce, Chapter 2 Face: Necropolitics and the U.S. Imperial Photography Complex excerpt from Body Parts of Empire: Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive Read-only pgs.46-65, bottom pg.76-79, optional skim pgs.83-90 Balce_Body Parts of Empire Chapter 2 abridged_accessible-1.pdf
Instructions: Please answer one of the questions below using critical thinking and the guidelines provided in the Sample Critical Response posted in Week 1. You may also refer to the Grading Rubric for Critical Response posted in Week 1. Post by Saturday end of day and respond to 2 posts by the following Tuesday end of the day. Word count: 300 words minimum for your post and 50 words minimum for each of your 2 responses questions (choose one to respond to):
1). How do Smith and Balce define visual culture and how does it relate to racism and colonialism?
2). Choose a photograph from Balces chapter, Face: Necropolitics and U.S. Imperial Photography Complex and analyze how race and gender are being represented as abject and/or docile
3). Choose a photograph from Balces chapter, Face: Necropolitics and U.S. Imperial Photography Complex and create your own caption that interprets the photograph differently. How are you disidentifying with the dominant gaze?
4). Explain the oppositional gaze and how Balce uses it to resist the dominant gaze that Ono and Pham call the racial media hegemony regarding the Philippine-American War.
