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AAS 120
Midterm
12
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Not Applicable
09/20/2006

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Takao Ozawa
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Filed for naturalization in 1922. Turned away. Tried to call japanese "white";

reaffirmed racist u.s. policies
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Antonio Gramsci
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Anti-Facist; tried to explain how fascism came to power; Argued people GAVE consent to power, people have power in leaders coming to power
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Louis Althusser
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Structuralist; People conform to ideologies easily; Overdetermination
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Raymond Williams
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inventor or one of first of "cultural studies"; Media analysis in Britain...(Ex) Testing what people do with what they see with television.
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Bhagat Singh Thind
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Supreme court case, once again, couldn't be naturalized becaue indians weren't "caucasian". U.S. never meant indians to be american
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Walter Benjamin
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Cultural/Social analysis; ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION...Reproduction age, devaluement of the original
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Hegemony
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creating consent; Antonio Gamsci
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ISA (Ideology State Apparatus)
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more passive type of ideology spreading (church, education, etc.)
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RSA (Repressive State Apparatus)
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more agressive way, military/police; Forceful
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Populist Culture
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culture from "ground swell of people"; Fewer people than mass Culture...Grows from small group
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Mass Culture
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"lowest common denominator" trying to spread culture that tries reaches all, but only effects a little.
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Gong Lum
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Lum vs. Rice ... Martha (9) was prohibited from attending a high school because of being Chinese...Supreme court of Mississippi classified her as colored and excluded her from attendance
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