What are some of the roles culture plays in people’s economic, political, psychological, psychic, and spiritual lives?

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The Midterm and Final Papers are analyses of politically-significant primary cultural sources
in terms of race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, nation, etc., that pertain to US and/or
transnational histories. The midterm and final papers should answer such questions as:
• What relationships exist between (mass/high/low/popular/etc.) culture and people’s
material lives and their social, economic, and political realities?
• What are some of the roles culture plays in people’s economic, political, psychological,
psychic, and spiritual lives?
• How can culture have an impact and significance that goes beyond mere “entertainment?”
1. Choose four primary cultural sources (feature and documentary films, television shows,
music videos, etc.) that you can write about for four pages and that have
political/historical significance. Describe your sources in ways that goes beyond just the
plot/narrative but instead has some kind of political/historical analysis.

2. Then, choose four written texts (books, articles, websites, etc.) that connect to your four
primary cultural sources.
3. The fifth page should be a works cited page listing the four written texts interspersed in
the paper as footnotes/endnotes/parenthetical references.
For each paper, choose four cultural examples representing:
1. white supremacy/race relations/African-American/black-transnational histories
2. hetero-patriarchy (gender)
3. queer representations/sexuality
4. class/economic inequalities
5. national identities
6. transnational issues, such as migration, refugees, questions surrounding borders, etc.
7. histories as a political act
Once you choose your four primary cultural sources, choose four written texts (books, journal
articles, websites, etc.) that directly connect to your primary cultural sources. These should be
incorporated throughout the paper as footnotes and/or parenthetical references and used to
provide a broader understanding/context to your four primary cultural sources. The paper should
be four-pages plus a one-page works cited page listing the four written texts (MLA format).
Midterm/Final Paper Rubric: NO QUOTATIONS
Creative Title (i.e. “Blackface in Hollywood Histories)
Page 1: Introductory Paragraph: Thesis statement:
My four primary cultural sources are 1. 2. 3. 4. Then two general sentences about the four
primary cultural sources in terms of their histories, politics, representations, stereotypes, etc.
Primary cultural source 1 description/analysis, connect to written text 1 with citation
(Author’s last name in parentheses/footnote).
Page 2: Primary cultural source 2 description/analysis, connect to written text 2 with citation
(Author’s last name in parentheses/footnote).
Page 3: Primary cultural source 3 description/analysis, connect to written text 3 with citation
(Author’s last name in parentheses/footnote).
Page 4: Primary cultural source 4 description/analysis, connect to written text 4 with citation
(Author’s last name in parentheses/footnote).
Conclusion paragraph, restate 4 primary cultural sources and add 2 general sentences.
Page 5: Works Cited Page in MLA format
Basic format: Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Title of the Book in Italics.
City Where the Book was Published: Publisher, Year of Publication.
This information can be found in books’ copyright pages, in the first few pages of your book.
For example:
Adams, Rachel. Sideshow USA. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Beltrán, Mary., and Camilla Fojas. Mixed Race Hollywood. New York: New York
University Press, 2008.
McKee, Alison L. The Woman’s Film of the 1940s: Gender, Narrative, and History.
New York: Routledge, 2014