1 social struggle media encoding audience decoding common sense/cultural power media appropriation...
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Social Struggle
Media Encoding
Audience Decoding
“Common Sense”/Cultural
Power
Media Appropriation
Ritual Consumption
Acceptance
Negotiation
Resistance
Code
Map
Template
“Hegemony”/
A Deep Code
Individualism
Work
Prosperity
Intergenerational Progress
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MinstrelsyMinstrelsy
T.D. Rice as “Jim Crow”
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Minstrelsy as Social Struggle
Minstrelsy as Social Struggle
When I got out I hit a manHis name I now forgot,
But dere was nothing left‘Sept a little grease spot
—Jim Crow Verse
When I got out I hit a manHis name I now forgot,
But dere was nothing left‘Sept a little grease spot
—Jim Crow Verse
I went down de riber,I didn’t mean to stay,
But dere I see so many galls,
I couldn’t get away—Jim Crow
Verse
I went down de riber,I didn’t mean to stay,
But dere I see so many galls,
I couldn’t get away—Jim Crow
Verse
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Minstrelsy as Hegemony
Minstrelsy as Hegemony
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What did it mean when a black man played a minstrel?
What did it mean when a black man played a minstrel?
William Henry Lane“Master Juba”
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Is Snoop Dogg a modern day minstrel?
Is Snoop Dogg a modern day minstrel?
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The “Commodification” of a Racial Code
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Black “labor functions as the spectacular mirror [and foil] of [an] ideal consuming [american]” —Mehaffy (pp. 136-137)