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some_stars) wrote2013-10-05 04:22 pm
some_stars) wrote2013-10-05 04:22 pm
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A few days ago I made a post asking for help finding sources to make a vid about literacy for one of my education courses. Here is a brief (and final) update on that:
1.) You are all awesome and the greatest and I love you guys forever, omg.
2.) Having found a song (probably), I think I'm going to try to focus in on new media stuff, still very political, I'm having trouble articulating words today but basically: people taking control of texts. Elaborated as follows:
3.) People: especially young people, especially POC and people with disabilities and, to a somewhat lesser extent, women--anyone in some way oppressed by the traditional educational concepts of "literacy" and "writing" and the teaching thereof in schools.
4.) Taking control: creating, adapting, translating, remixing, subverting, rejecting, destroying. Both in school contexts and elsewhere.
5.) Texts: just about any kind of "created" communication (that can be distinguished as such in a two-second clip with no context). Computer/internet stuff for sure, but also video, audio (if there's like...microphones or speakers in the shot or something visible like that), drama, pictures and other visual art, and all kinds of writing and written text, both traditional (regular books, writing in a notebook) and subversive (text graffiti, zines, a million other things I can't think of right now).
6.) Also scenes of the exact opposite of all of the above, for the beginning of the vid—people being oppressed by texts and school.
So: if you didn't see the last post, or maybe this slightly more specific request brings something else to mind, or whatever, I would just really appreciate any movies/TV/any filmed viddable source whatsoever you can think of that fits any of the above criteria, even just one. I am super super grateful for everyone who's already offered suggestions or linked to my original request, and I promise this is the last post I'll make on the subject (at least that requests your involvement; as with any vid, I will probably whine about my own process endlessly). As before, signal-boosting is hugely appreciated! I promise this is the last time. *g*
1.) You are all awesome and the greatest and I love you guys forever, omg.
2.) Having found a song (probably), I think I'm going to try to focus in on new media stuff, still very political, I'm having trouble articulating words today but basically: people taking control of texts. Elaborated as follows:
3.) People: especially young people, especially POC and people with disabilities and, to a somewhat lesser extent, women--anyone in some way oppressed by the traditional educational concepts of "literacy" and "writing" and the teaching thereof in schools.
4.) Taking control: creating, adapting, translating, remixing, subverting, rejecting, destroying. Both in school contexts and elsewhere.
5.) Texts: just about any kind of "created" communication (that can be distinguished as such in a two-second clip with no context). Computer/internet stuff for sure, but also video, audio (if there's like...microphones or speakers in the shot or something visible like that), drama, pictures and other visual art, and all kinds of writing and written text, both traditional (regular books, writing in a notebook) and subversive (text graffiti, zines, a million other things I can't think of right now).
6.) Also scenes of the exact opposite of all of the above, for the beginning of the vid—people being oppressed by texts and school.
So: if you didn't see the last post, or maybe this slightly more specific request brings something else to mind, or whatever, I would just really appreciate any movies/TV/any filmed viddable source whatsoever you can think of that fits any of the above criteria, even just one. I am super super grateful for everyone who's already offered suggestions or linked to my original request, and I promise this is the last post I'll make on the subject (at least that requests your involvement; as with any vid, I will probably whine about my own process endlessly). As before, signal-boosting is hugely appreciated! I promise this is the last time. *g*
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(Anonymous) 2013-10-07 12:39 am (UTC)(link)I don't know if it would be sufficiently transformative or textual, but the movie Akeelah and the Bee is about a little girl who competes in the national spelling bee. Akeelah is African-American, and her primary rivals/friends are Latino and Chinese-American.
For written text, many of the slave narratives are deeply concerned with literacy. In particular: Fredrick Douglass' memoirs (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the most famous, but I believe he wrote three or four different books about his experiences), Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.
And on the odder end of the spectrum, you might want to look up the Five Percenters/Nations of Gods and Earths, who involve a lot of wordplay in their theology. (For example, according to the NGE, Allah is an acronym for Arm, Leg, Leg, Arm, Head.)