AsAm320
Critical Response 4: Internment
Answer one of the questions below. Be sure to post 300 words of analysis (not including the question) by Saturday end of day. Respond to 2 posts, 50 words each
1.Think about the different techniques that Lange or Adams and Okubo use to depict nature and their place in it (either idealizing citizens and workers as “pioneers” or presenting an oppositional gaze). Compare and contrast two different visual images and try to identify a dominant gaze and an oppositional gaze.
2. How do Lange and Adams depict Japanese Americans as “model minorities”? Why do you think they are not represented as poor struggling farm workers, which many were? Think about how Colleen Lye talks about the liberal “whitening” of farm labor during the Great Depression.
3.How did Progressive environmentalists and liberals try to frame the Internment of people of Japanese ancestry as a “positive” thing that aligns the Japanese with American nature ideals? How does Yamada’s poetry challenge dominant American desires to shape the history of internment as a form of assistance and assimilation into America?
Move you can make in your Critical Response:
Define words
Make connections between ideas, with your own experience
Question
Predict
Find causes “because” “if…then”
Expand on idea “this also applies to…”
Disagree and why
Agree and why
Find limiting conditions “yes…but”
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