American Studies Pop Culture 300

Representation Assignment

AMST 300 Fall 2019 DUE: September 15, 2019

In this assignment, you need to draw on course materials from Part I to answer the set of questions below in a 200-400 word paragraph. This assignment is designed to give you practice on connecting materials from different days of the semester together before you write your first essay. To that end, you are required to use materials from at least TWO days of the course (so, fandom, the assigned music albums, Crazy Rich Asians, and Ms Marvel). Here you should draw on both the assigned materials and any discussion/lecture materials from the class that are relevant. This is not meant to be a full essay so keep your answer to one paragraph even though you could easily write more. You will have a chance to return to this material at the end of the semester.

Does diverse representation matter in popular culture? Why or why not? Why do you think efforts to diversify representation often provoke hostility from certain segments of fans?