Shohat and Stam, 2003 group/board work

What are whiteness studies? What do they purport to do? How do these co-exist within multiculturalism? How do Shohat and Stam challenge earlier forms of whiteness studies?

What are cultural studies? How do they differ in the U.S. from where they originated in the Frankfurt-School? What do Shoat and Stam suggest to overcome some of the conceptual and theoretical problems?

Your challenge is to figure out how the editors use the term "multichronotopic" in their introduction. Be ready to explain what the term is and how the writers seem to put the terms into use. How does this approach to media allow for us to better understand mass media, such as cinema?

The cinema in particular and audio-visual media in general is in Bakhtinian terms "multichronotopic." Although Bakhtin develops his concept of the "chronotope" (from chronos, time, and topos, place) to suggest the inextricable relation between time and space in the novel, it also seems ideally suited to the cinema as a medium where "spatial and temporal indicators are fused into one carefully thought-out concrete whole." (It also spares us the absurdity of "choosing" between time and space as theoretical focus.) Feel free to use the Internet to inform yourselves.

Figure out all of the ways in which Shohat and Stam define multiculturalism? Discuss the ways in which this term is both useful and problematic for scholars. Write the term on the board and define it for the class. Use page numbers. Be prepared to discuss the answers to the questions I posed to your group.

Figure out all of the ways in which Shohat and Stam define postcoloniality? Discuss the ways in which this term is both useful and problematic for scholars. Write the term on the board and define it for the class. Use page numbers. Be prepared to discuss the answers to the questions I posed to your group.

Figure out all of the ways in which Shohat and Stam define transnational media? Discuss the ways in which this phrase is both useful and problematic for scholars. Write the phrase on the board and define it for the class. Use page numbers. Be prepared to discuss the answers to the questions I posed to your group.