Composing Identities: Films, Families and Racism

Autor/inn/en	Aitken, Stuart C.; Jokisch, Brad D.; Boone, Christopher G.
Titel	Composing Identities: Films, Families and Racism
Quelle	In: Journal of Geography, 102 (2003) 1, S.2-12 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-1341
DOI	10.1080/00221340308978514
Schlagwörter	United States History; Teaching Methods; Films; Ethnicity; Social Influences; Identification (Psychology); Family Influence; Racial Factors; Urban Areas; Social Bias; Social Studies; Racial Bias; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Film; Ethnizität; Sozialer Einfluss; Urban area; Stadtregion; Gemeinschaftskunde; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Kalifornien
Abstract	With this paper, I elaborate the use of the movies "American History X" and "Mi Familia" in classroom settings to highlight issues of ethnicity and the social construction of identity through families and communities. Taken together, these movies draw attention to racial geographies of Los Angeles but in very different ways. I contrast the ways they involve familial reactions to geographies of exclusion and betrayal, and how racial space is structured through larger community and institutional relations. I speak to how these issues are broached in a large introductory, interdisciplinary class. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10