Kasey Radcliffe-"Where truth ends and fantasy begins":Caroline Vercoe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAmK2LQ0sWc&feature=related

I wanted to go deeper into this article than just picking out a picture. I looked at so many videos of the real Hawaii and it was shocking to see how my perception is completely wrong. The video above shows the effects on the Hawaiin's from America. I connected it to the article because it is a pure example of the truth, and NOT fantasy. I related the article to this image because this is one of many postcards from the 1930's that developed the American perception of Hawaii. The typical Hula girl with lays, grass skirt, banjo, and Aloha, is showing the sterotyped image of the Hawaiin girl. Vercoe talks about how the media has mistakenly made our veiw of Hawaii. There is another part we don't know. The example of Post-Colonism really plays in to this article. After the Europeans took over, it lead to poverty and death. However Americans do not see that, they see the TOURIST part. It makes me think about how unapprecative and masked this country really is. The article goes a lot deeper than just soldiers being in the pacific in WWII,and the falseness of a image of the Hula girl, it tells the story of how "what you see, may not always be what you get."

Brianna Calamusa "Factory Girl" by Lois Leveen

Just Like Camila I couldn't chose just 1 photo. I picked the Image of Dora The Explorer because the article flat out talks about her, her helpful friend Boots (the monkey) and the stars that they catch along their adventures. For the most part this article was a little more difficult for me to understand...atleast until the end. But what I got from it was that there is a major problem with factory contaminations. This effects not only the products being exported from the factory but the people that work there too. Along with them, their families are also effected. The article talked about how most of the workers are either undocumented immigrants (im pretty sure) or hispanic workers, if not foreign. This relates to Dora in two ways: she too is hispanic and just like the unsafe products leaving the factory, there was a recall on Dora the Explorer toys for having a unsafe chemical in them. So that's pretty much what I got from this article but I'm sure there is way more you can take from reading it. 

*Camilla*

While trying to pick a certain image for my blog entry I couldn't pick just one so I decided on all three.I choose all the photos because they reminded me in some way of the article "The Consumption of Lynching Images" by Leigh Raiford. The first two images really depict the actual lynchings described in the article. The first shows a KKK member holding a noose in front of a confederate flag which some people use to represent white domination of African Americans and Jewish people. This picture could be an example of the images that were used on the post cards that were sent around communities as stated in the article. The second picture comes from the cartoon South Park and it symbolizes an African American bring lynched while a group watches and looks to be rejoicing. This relates to the article because it explained how crowds would come out to watch out of curiosity or entertainment. Something I thought was interesting was how in the article it stated their were sometimes another African American in the crowd or an opposing race looking away in disgust. My response to those two images are disgust because any killing of any individual should be done by a higher power and not another individual. I choose the last image out of humor just because they both interpret the flag to mean different things while the African American men interpret it in a racist way, and the other guy just means it as a way of showing southern pride. The article in itself was interesting and insightful and I am glad I was able to obtain further knowledge about something that is not as talked about as it once was.