Humanity, throughout time, has become obsessed with finding and answering the questions of the universe. The questions we have asked and the questions we have answered make the world what it is today. Civilizations are now flourishing on a foundation of newfound questions to explore, yet there is one question that no matter how hard we look, no matter how much money and technology we invest into finding the answer, we have ultimately been unsuccessful in finding the true answer. Who we are and how we express ourselves may be the toughest questions to answer for one reason; we create the answer. There is nowhere we can go or something we can do to find out who we are for certain. Through the journey to discover ourselves two particular contemporary
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Wilson uses a style called hybridity, which according to Rohini Molak and Gavin Jantjes is “a state of being, arrived at through the innovative mixing and borrowing of ideas, languages and modes of practice.” (1:54-55) In this case Wilson mixes the white man’s burden theme with the continued colonization of Native Americans. (2) Wilson does not hide from his white heritage though as I believe he embraces the dark part of his culture to send a message that hiding from your culture only stashes away the guilt. To fully express himself is to embrace both the good and the bad of his cultures in order to progress as a …show more content…
For instance Marshall tends to give all his characters very black, “ink-like” skin. (1:48-49) As the civil rights movements had started to move in the right direction during the 70’s and 80’s, I believe that Marshall embraced the beauty in his culture where others could only see blemishes. The issue with essentialism though plays into how Marshall’s ideas of communal identity could be seen as an issue. During this time period the colored community needed to stick together to be strong, yet there was always an issue of being too grouped together that stereotypes would root itself in the culture forever. (1:48-49) Marshall wanted to unite the community by painting, to an extent, similar looking figures that could attempt to add pride to a whole
Wilson uses a style called hybridity, which according to Rohini Molak and Gavin Jantjes is “a state of being, arrived at through the innovative mixing and borrowing of ideas, languages and modes of practice.” (1:54-55) In this case Wilson mixes the white man’s burden theme with the continued colonization of Native Americans. (2) Wilson does not hide from his white heritage though as I believe he embraces the dark part of his culture to send a message that hiding from your culture only stashes away the guilt. To fully express himself is to embrace both the good and the bad of his cultures in order to progress as a …show more content…
For instance Marshall tends to give all his characters very black, “ink-like” skin. (1:48-49) As the civil rights movements had started to move in the right direction during the 70’s and 80’s, I believe that Marshall embraced the beauty in his culture where others could only see blemishes. The issue with essentialism though plays into how Marshall’s ideas of communal identity could be seen as an issue. During this time period the colored community needed to stick together to be strong, yet there was always an issue of being too grouped together that stereotypes would root itself in the culture forever. (1:48-49) Marshall wanted to unite the community by painting, to an extent, similar looking figures that could attempt to add pride to a whole