popular american culture discussion 2

Due Tues:

Read: Pilgrim Chapter Two and Three: https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=883 (The pages Chapter two and chapter three are found at the bottom of the page on this link)

Bennett “The NCAA Will Give You PTSD”= https://books.google.com/books?id=nvdIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT37&lpg=PT37&dq=Bennett+%E2%80%9CThe+NCAA+Will+Give+You+PTSD%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=Es_enkvDeU&sig=ACfU3U3G9kuwQNA_vDiarIRkGr4w-fp9qg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiq8byqqcfjAhVnT98KHaDcDfUQ6AEwBnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Bennett%20%E2%80%9CThe%20NCAA%20Will%20Give%20You%20PTSD%E2%80%9D&f=false

Discussion Prompts:

1. On page 32, Bennett says that as a college football player he was “half god, half property” but “never fully human.” How would you relate his description to W.E.B. Dubois’s notion of “double consciousness” from last week?

2. Please discuss Pilgrim’s chapter two in terms of this quote from Paul Bloom’s article “The Root of All Cruelty?” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/27/the-root-of-all-cruelty

“At some European soccer games, fans make monkey noises at African players and throw bananas at them. Describing Africans as monkeys is a common racist trope, and might seem like yet another example of dehumanization. But plainly these fans don’t really think the players are monkeys; the whole point of their behavior is to disorient and humiliate. To believe that such taunts are effective is to assume that their target would be ashamed to be thought of that way—which implies that, at some level, you think of them as people after all.” [I’ve bolded the section that identifies the psychology at play in such racist taunts as presented here and in Ch. 2]. Please refer to specific sections of the Pilgrim book, using summarizing, quoting, and paraphrasing, as well as in-text citations with page numbers.

 

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