Commodification

Over the past years, it is evident that aspects Hip-Hop are being commodity, creating a multi-billion dollar industry (Holsendolph 1999). White corporate Americans are the primary distributors for the Hip-Hop industry. Moreover, the commodification of Hip-Hop has led to the weakening of the cultural expression and critical conscious awareness of the music, solely focusing on the white patriarchal perception of African Americans. Henceforth, hyper-masculine identity within hip-hop culture…

There has always been a huge influence on women's body image due to marketing by huge corporations, and stereotypes created by such marketing. One can see how much of an impact it has on society just by watching tv/movies, seeing advertisements, and porn. Right now in our society, the social norm is to have a big butt and to be extremely skinny. Many women are affected by this, and it's sad how society views women's bodies; due to this kind of marketing and stereotype it basically tells everyone…

When it became apparent that there was a high demand for visual imaging technologies in pregnancy the ultrasound began to emerge as a routine practice to monitor pregnancy. With the standardization of the fetal image there emerged “a scene of commodification and consumption, bringing the fetus ‘to life’” (Taylor 2008, 27). One of the first scholars to examine the fetishized nature of the fetus was Rosalind Pollack Petchesky…

DeLillo, Don, and Mark Osteen. White Noise: Text and Criticism. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1998. Print. This criticism contains the complete text of White Noise along with several critics’ opinions on the novel at the end. Critics such as John Frow, John Duvall, and Albert Mobillo address the diction, themes, and metaphysics throughout White Nosie. The book also includes Tom LeClair’s interview with DeLillo, which provides valuable information as DeLillo explains his thinking while writing…

Collins in her novel The Hunger Games offers a critique on Western culture and civilization. In this novel through the portrayal of dystopian society that is driven by technology and consumerism Suzanne Collins explores and advocates against the commodification of youths and neglect for environment. The Hunger Games, first of a trilogy, set in a time after environmental havoc and massacre, replaced by a dystopian country Panem, comprised of 12 suffering districts ruled by the Capitol city. Panem…

and The New Racism”, gives an in-depth analysis to the constructions of Black masculinity and femininity across socioeconomic levels and within particular notable roles (eg. the athlete, the parent). While she does pay close attention to the commodification of the sexualized Black female body by Black men, and what is referred to as “black-on-black violence” especially in her chapters “Booty Call” and “Get Your Freak On”, what she does not examine is how these two ideas intersect. More…

The idea of alienation is exhibited in Horkheimer’s theory of labour (Horkheimer, 20). There is a clear distinction between one’s labour and the rest of society. Society no longer acknowledges the existence of labourers, and only focuses on the commodification of goods and services. This is due to the bourgeois not listening to the proletariat, and only minding what is most beneficial for them (Horkheimer, Adorno, 26). This creates the feeling of isolation between the labourer and his product,…

focuses on the struggle between the lower and upper class and the issues of power and money in literature. Readers with this point of view would perhaps look for the oppression of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie. As well as looking at the commodification of people, where people are treated as commodities. They might also focus on how social classes are represented and how they interact or conflict. Feminist…

Pedophilia was not termed until the 1900’s, when psychiatrist Von Kraft Ebbing encountered it, and explained each meeting in writing. Pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder where an adult is solely sexually attracted to children under the age of eleven. In society pedophiles are seen to be among the lowest of degenerates. They are ostracized and incarcerated, where they most often encounter even more horrifying consequences at the hands of their criminal peers. Unfortunately, many rapes including…

A class division is prevalent within the narrator’s society, in that the wealthy isolate the poor and require them to marry another wealthy person in order to be integrated back into society. Karl Marx believed this division was a struggle for power, “[…] ‘motored’ by the competition for economic, social, and political advantage” (Barry, 151). Thus, since poor people have no money, they have no power over their lives. As the narrator states while in the woman’s shelter, “What I prefer is no…