Sup Sebi? i think we're supposed to be discussing the questions listed below about anzaldua this week... i started commenting in the comment section of each post.... join in PLEASE!

Q1 Notes on the Balinese Cockfight

I feel that the Cockfights comment on social interaction. They can show status and character of the cockfighters themselves, and the people involved in the betting. Geertz says that in the Deep Play fights money is almost a secondary thought and the first would be status. In the section Playing with Fire, Geertz gives us general facts, almost rules to cockfighting. In my opinion these facts could almost be directly related to the culture of these people. He says the Cock fights are a form of sentimentil education. I really don't know where i'm going with this help me somebody.

Look in the Comments!

hey guys look in the comments of the questions for my responses and please join in!

Adams & Anzaldua

Compare Adams' notions of the 'Virgin' (in "The Dynamo and the Virgin") and the 'American woman' (in "Vis Inertiae") with Anzaldua's concept of the "Virgin/whore dichotomy (in "Entering the Serpent").

Question Breakdown:

In "The Dynamo and the Virgin," who or what is the 'Virgin' and what does this figure represent to Adams? To start, list descriptions Adams uses to describe the 'Virgin.'

In "Vis Inertiae," towards the middle-end of the essay, Adams discusses American women. How does he describe the 'American woman'?

How does Adams describwe the relationship of 'American women' with men? With the Church? With 'her' children?

Compare Adams' descriptions of the 'Virgin' and the 'American woman.'

In "Entering the Serpent," describe what Anzaldua says happened to the female deities.

What does Anzaldua mean by the "virgin/puta (whore) dichotomoy" (68)?

Compare Adams' notions/descriptions of the 'Virgin' and 'American women' to Anzaldua's concept/description of the 'virgin/whore dichotomy.'

Anzaldua: Argument in "For Waging War Is My Cosmic Duty"

In "For Waging War Is My Cosmic Duty," what is Anzaldua's argument? What makes her argument effective or ineffective?

Question Breakdown:

1. What is Anzaldua's purpose in writing this piece? What's her thesis? (These aren't necessarily the same thing, and aren't necessarily directly stated.)
2. What are her main points? List at least three.
3. What evidence does she use to suppport these points?
4. Where does her own voice enter the essay?
5. Is her argument effective? Why or why not?

Q 2 Stranger in the Village

question 2 of Stranger in the Village: i googled and found that Edward Franklin Frazier is a Howard graduate and leading American sociologist and scholar who created empirically based knowledge that was useful in solving problems affecting Black people. He wrote over 100 articles and nine books that challenged traditional research used in the social work field. i think the author created strangers and companions to make the reader feel what it is to be in a foreign land better (?) he talks about himself being a stranger in the village to show how different cultures are and how the way people responded to him village had totally different intentions and motivations than the way people in America did. what do you think?
originally posted on September 3, 2007 9:43 PM in the wrong spot also, sorry

Question 1 for Anzaldua

i would like to discuss question 1 for Entering into the Serpent and How to Tame a Wild Tongue. the author seems to be translating some key words that are essential to the reading. i wasn't sure what to do with the rest. i though this lack of translating in the How to Tame a Wild Tongue essay was great in putting the reader in the position of not understanding as the writer and the people she describes must have felt. i have spanish speaking relatives that i went to to ask for some translations. What did you guys think?
originally posted on September 3, 2007 9:27 PM in the wrong section

Qestions for a second reading: James Baldwin

Hook it up Ed-posse I need your help with this one! I hate to say it but I'm finding it hard to indentify with James Baldwin. DOn't get me wrong, I know what it's like to feel liek a stranger, but not within the contexgt of my own race. It's hard for me to accept the limited views of prejudice, therefore my own preclivity to deny all such boundries prevents me of having a clear picture of this essay. I need your guys and gals help in realizing form and functionin this essay. PLEASE!!

Questions for a second reading: Gloria Anzaldua

Question one really is asking us to look at oursleves and too see all the layers that makes us who we are. When you are reading either Entering into the Serpent, or, How to Tame a Wild Tongue, You notice how absolutle nuts her writing style is. Gloria does NOT attempt to write in a fashion that is we regular whitebread citizens would even consider to make any sense at all. That in itslef is probably the most liberating thing about this piece. It attempts to throw away all lines and borders that we put up within ourselves to shield us from the things we don't want to see. Gloria has a proud tradition that comes from a time of when people were proud of thier heritage, and took pride in it. They took pride in being different. I would like to say that feeling like this piece doesn't speak to you is completely normal. Gloria throws in bits and phrases in other languages, I believe, for that effect specifically. It leaves the reader unbalanced and unsafe. Vunrable and suceptible. WHich is exactly the way her culture has been treated.

QSR: Henry Adams Cont.

Alrigght Second question. This question asks us to re-read the preface and try to divulge the intention, or percieved intention-as we all of individual perspectives-concerning this essay. The analogy of the manikin is prominent, and seems to be the most blaring example of intent that I can come up with...on my own, hint hint! To me Adams talking about the Manikin is like saying that everything he has learned was made to fit a certain mold shaped largely by the society he lives in. He is trying to open the reader's eye to the fact that knowledge is taken for granted and, as you can read at naseum on my personal blog, that there is a great need for well greased cogs to run and operate the systems we create. Also Henry Adams is showing his own discovery of this as he reflects back on his education, and by his experience can we learn!

alright folks, lets hear some feedback,or maybe someone try tackling a new question. Show em what the ed-posse is made of! WORD!

Questions for a second reading: Henry Adams

Well i can see that our very blank blog-space is actively exciting! Whoo! ed-posse rules! Seriously though its thursday and by now one of us should have attempted to read something and then post about it. Anyway I'm done griping, so lets get started.

Question number one brings about an imprtant note to me. It is important to remember that Henry Adams is indeed writing about himself. I think it strange that one person can find it in his own mind to write about himslef, often, in the third person. I know it can be confusing. Lets look for examples.

There's one in the very first sentence. "One day in June, 1854, young Adams, walked...." You see what's happening here? Henry Adams is calling himself Young Adams so that the reader will have the seperation between the Henry Adams that is writing this essay, and the Henry Adams that he is writing about.

Lets get some more examples!