Digital Journal Assignment: Culture, Capital, and Counting Communities Instructions
Hi all,
For this weeks journal is a space for you to reflect on the themes we’ve been exploring, how culture is valued as a form of “capital” and how identities like “Hispanic” were constructed through activism, politics, and the Census.
Use these questions as guiding questions to help you with your journal and discussion. You don’t have to answer them if you don’t want to but use them as examples to help you with the creation of your journal. Please connect to the readings in your posts.
Whose Culture has Capital
Whose culture gets ignored, dismissed, or devalued?
How do you see this in your own life, school, or community?
- How do certain cultural practices, languages, or traditions get valued as assets?
or, from this weeks reading, “The Toughest Question”: The US Census Bureau and the Making of Hispanic Data
- What stories or unique experiences might be lost when different groups are lumped together as “Hispanic”?
The 2030 Census is testing whether to combine race and ethnicity into one question. Do you think that would improve representation, or make things more complicated? Why?
Do you think the term “Hispanic” still works today, or should it be replaced by another term (Latino, Latinx, Latine, Chicano so on and so forth)?
Arlene Davila: Introduction to the Market Latinos Inc.
- Explain how marketing can shape identity rather than just reflect it and give an example.
- Is increased representation in advertising a sign of progress or can it be a form of containment? Or can it be a mix of both?
- After reading Dávila, do you feel differently about being “marketed to”? Why or why not?
Reply to your classmates with more than, I agree…reply has to be more than 100 words.
