Week 3 Notes

Week 3 Notes 

4/16/2019  

API Popular Culture – Extrinsic (The production of art/culture by the demographic) 

API and Popular Culture 

APIs in Popular Culture – Depictions or representations/stereotypes 

Bildungsroman – coming of age story 

Threads/themes/topics: 

Americanization                              Family 

Culture/Duality                               Activism 

Generational Gaps                         Hybridity 

Racism                                              Sacrifice 

Trauma                                             Education 

Gender                                             American Dream 

Work                                                 Normalcy 

Trauma – 9/11, Iraq War, Middle Eastern discrimination, New York Chinatown, losing business 

Plans in the 1960’s- internment centers 

Women domestic violence 

Pearl Harbor 

Missing the anger in the tone 

Contemporary Asian Pacific Islander 

Response to an article 

Mixed plate? 

Better Luck Tomorrow (Asian American Movie) 

Ben being part of extracurriculars for a college app 

Token Asian on basketball team, gets an article written about it by Daric (club president) 

Likes Stephanie Vendergosh (adopted) 

Virgil, no impulse control 

Cycle = routine 

Steve = boyfriend of Stephanie 

All overachievers 

Scamming starts with cheat sheets 

Adjectives/nouns announce every new act 

The SAT words that announce each mini-arc: ????/temerity/quixotic/temperance/catharsis/inextricable 

More notoreity= more power 

Beating up a jock at party (Josh?) 

Ben wants out of scam gig 

Parents not present (Good grades = no supervision needed) counter point to Asian parenting 

Ben loses his virginity in Vegas 

Steve wants the group to hit his parent’s house 

Group decides to give Steve a wakeup call 

Ambush in the garage 

Gunshot leads to beating with a baseball bat 

Eventual chokehold 

Ben depressed; Virgil shoots himself 

Daric panics, Virgil in a coma, Ben asks about the article, leaves 

Stephanie and Ben get together 

The movie is where race is not the point but is the given 

Escape oppression -> Able to do/act -> Freedom to not 

4/17/2019  

Kip Fulbeck – The Hapa Project 

Hapa – Hawaiian for half/mixed (part Hawaiian/part something else) 

Cultural Appropriation – History of colonization 

Genuine voice 

Pop culture – Readily available 

Beware misinformation 

Appreciation vs appropriation 

Recognition of cultures that you take from (sensitivity) 

Decontextualization of motifs 

Joanna Eng: Who gets to use this word and for what? 

Wei Ming Dariotis – Hapa: The Word of Power 

Greg Tate: Everything of the Burden 

4/19/2019  

Rabbit in the Moon 

Internment Camps 

Division of generations  

Issei – First Generation 

Kibei – American born but Japanese educated 

Nisei – American born and raised 

Communities changed prior and post camps 

Questionnaire for loyalty 

Kids grew up with peers, didn’t spend time with family 

Tule Lake refused to answer the questionnaire 

JACL – Japanese-American Citizen League (Made as representative Organization of the Japanese/Japanese Americans) 

Manzanar – Food being stolen, shortages by administration due to a black market 

Leadership roles transferred from Issei to Nisei due to lack of English fluency (removing the community pillars) 

Germans and Italians were interred in small numbers 

Repression of the camps (ignoring it, removing it from memory) 

Difficulty with reintegrating with society