American Literature
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change."
At the beginning of the semester we learned about Stereotypes and different types of lenses. We started off the year with the "Unfair Project". I really enjoyed this particular assignment just because it made us think about the perspective others look at us through, as well as thinking of the lens we see ourselves through.
I wrote the things people have said or think about my race in pen, and things I define myself with in permanent marker. I did this because I think it shows how I could rise above and erase these stereotypes. But the things that are in permanent marker are permanent according to me because I'm the only one who can decide who I am. To the right you will see my self portrait. We learned about The Critical Race Theory. So we started applying lenses to our reading such as; Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Gender Theory, Feminism, Reader Response. |