Episode 5: On the Hustle 2B
52 minutes Posted Nov 10, 2017 at 2:14 am.
Mentorship styles Dante, Jin, Suga
A stuffed ostrich…
Introducing footing (Goffman)
Changing footing with food
Two other seminal moments with this crew
Dante walks away
The terms of reaching across difference power relationships
Contrast with Tony’s team: “good company”
A willingness to try things
Culture isn’t pure anyway
Nate’s a classic “best friend”
Nate’s role in the sandwich presentation
Blackface isn’t just painting your face… racial impersonation
An example from the Netherlands: Zwarte Piet
There’s a limit to calling it “cultural appropriation” complexity to conversation
Caricature…but not for critical commentary (cf. Eric Lott, Love and Theft)
Where’s the reflexivity?
Breaking down Coolio’s response
Multiple layers to this difficult moment
If you don’t question… we don’t learn and grow
Wanting to see your faves do better
The kind of community we’re setting up for ourselves
Coolio’s philosophy about performance
Introducing Austin’s speech act theory
Butler has adopted Austin’s performativity and applied it to gender identity
There’s no essential gender identity performance is all there is
We’re performing at every moment
A hip hop ethos that can pervade any aspect of life
For Coolio, the boundary between performance and living is blurred
A thick (thicc?) episode!
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Show notes
We return with further analysis of American Hustle Life, Episode 2. This time, we look at mentorship styles, racial impersonation, theories of performativity, and more!
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