Tuesday:
Popular Music: Three Things
- pop music incorporates much of pop culture
- Edward Liu, some aints
- “Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps” – Elizabeth Wheeler, Dialogics of Rap
Boxing in Pinoy Culture
- a sport Pinoy can claim as our own/something regarded as American that we’ve made ours
- historical use of financial support
- metaphor for resistance
- tbh every papa boxed in their life, either casually or professionally don’t lie
The Debut
Dante Basco is one of the most iconic Pinoy film stars, permeating music through his previous roles. In The Debut, he (in my opinion) perfectly demonstrates the seemingly mutual exclusiveness of American and Pinoy cultural expectations. As all coming of age stories, it seems he has to choose between two worlds before learning how to reconcile the two worlds he lives in.
The movie also depicts the toxic masculinity/dedication to patriarchy the Philippines still emboldens even to this day. Also, even characters acknowledge/demonstrate the anti-blackness nonblack light skin poc participate in for self defense, whether they know it or not.
Wednesday:
Peer Reviews
- includes honesty, kindness, and collaboration
- speeds up learning process
- historically successful
- argues everyone has innate talent
- teachers are writers who teach people to be writers – a self-sufficient machine
- What? Why? How?
- an opportunity to receive non-evaluative feedback
- a group of peers may help more than one teacher
Friday
Dark Blue Suit – Peter Bacho
- chasing the American Dream
- Fathers as the pivotal points, beginning and end which include some sort of death
- rise and fall of people, cultures, eras, and attitudes (that still live on)
- coming of age happens more than once and for many reasons
- where is the line between excusable and inexcusable evil acts for good?
- appropriation of black culture by nonblack poc for self defense and preservation but also the perpetuation of white supremacy
- for many second generation kids, “home” is a distant, unfamiliar land since their origins and their current dwellings may contradict. self-discovery, exploration, and research will probably take a life time and then some