The "othered" community I have chosen to examine is the poverty community. Those in poverty have been looked at in a negative light. What has driven me to take a further look into poverty was a film from the "A Path Appears" series, here is the link to the episode that opens your mind to really think about those in poverty, http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/path-appears/episode-cycle-poverty.html. We all have our idea about people in poverty and it is not always the best idea. I think I will look at texts about the group, just so we can see how others perceive those in poverty, but also look into texts that the group represents themselves. In general I will use articles of any kind and I want to really focus in on this film "A Path Appears" that talks about breaking the cycle of poverty. Right now I don't really know what direction I will be going with this project and input is welcome!
Hi Taylar,
ReplyDeleteI think looking at the community of those in poverty is a great idea! And this looks like an interesting text to use as a starting point. You'll want to pick, though, either texts written by those in poverty or texts written about those in poverty. So, if you're interested in using this video series as one of your texts, then you would look at other texts that are written about people in poverty. Also, if you're going to look at this video series as one of your texts, you might want to pick just this promo as one of your texts rather than the entire series otherwise you'll have too much to analyze. The other option you could choose is to look only at a series of clips from this video series and center your project around looking at "how this video series constructs people in poverty?"