Below you'll find the content that will be on your final exam. Please remember that the focus of the exam is the second part of the semester, but the exam itself will be completely comprehensive.
From beginning of the semester to mid-terms:
From mid-terms to final exam:
The structure of this exam will be a bit different than your mid-term. Namely, you will not be asked short-answers. Instead, you will have matching/identification as you did before and an essay question. Again, you will be given to prompts to chose from. Please, let me know if there are any questions.
From beginning of the semester to mid-terms:
- America v. United States
- The meaning of 'Merica
- Reimagining the past (course theme)
- Critical Race Theory (including: purpose, goals, and application)
- Race-Blind Racism
- African-American Vernacular
- Everything on Beloved (including: plot, characters, major themes, quotations, narrative style)
- Rememory
- America is Beautiful Coke commercial and discussion
- Everything on Django Unchained
- Critical responses to Django Unchained
- Camp
- Spaghetti Western
- Race (and representations of race) in US culture
- Covert and Overt Prestige
From mid-terms to final exam:
- Everything on Flight (including characters, plot, themes, culture, etc.)
- The Lone Ranger
- Angels in America (both Millennium Approaches and Perestroika)
- Angels in America film that we watched in class
- "cracking history wide open"
- Subjectivity (white man playing a Native American, for example)
- Reimagining history from a Native American perspective
- gender and United States culture
- sexual orientation and Untied States culture
- religion and Untied States culture
- disease and United States culture
- Progress/Progressivism
- Pop culture
- Reimagining history in United States culture
The structure of this exam will be a bit different than your mid-term. Namely, you will not be asked short-answers. Instead, you will have matching/identification as you did before and an essay question. Again, you will be given to prompts to chose from. Please, let me know if there are any questions.