Final Project Worksheet

In Week 5 you submit your Final Project. In Weeks 1 through 4 of the course, you work
on Milestones that serve as building blocks for the Final Project. This worksheet is the
Week 1 Milestone Assignment and must be submitted by Day 7.

Respond by typing directly into the boxes provided below. Please keep this worksheet,
because you will refer to it throughout the term.

For the Final Project, you will complete a 1,500- to 2,000-word paper that looks deeply
at a single social issue across multiple popular culture artifacts.

Choose one of the following social issues:

 Race/ethnicity
 Sexuality
 Gender
 Social and economic class
 Violence
 Indecency/free speech
My chosen issue is:
 Race/ethnicity

I am interested in this issue because (100–150 words): Include one reference to an

academically relevant source, either from our classroom, the Walden Library, or Google
Scholar, that speaks to your interest in the issue.

I am interested in this issue because, in my opinion, People, who are part of a different
race or ethnicity group, are still victim of discrimination even in modern popular
cultures. It is well known that there is still discrimination in Hollywood. For example, 65
of the 100 top films of 2017 did not have Asian or Asian American females in the movie
and 64 did not have Hispanic/ Latina females (Smith, Choueiti, Pieper, Case & Choi,
2017, p.2).

There are not the only cases of race and ethnicity issues and recently, famous actors
have denounced that incidents because even when movies, music videos, tv shows,
etc. consider groups of people from different races, most of the time their roles are
completely classified under stereotypes.

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 I am interested in this issue because (100–150 words): Include one reference to an
academically relevant source, either from our classroom, the Walden Library, or Google
Scholar, that speaks to your interest in the issue.

I would like to research more about how this issue is approached in the field of popular
culture.

Select artifacts from the following categories:

 Film
 Episodic moving image (TV shows—may be broadcast or streamed)
 Music
 Music videos
 Fashion
 Advertising
 Animation (general animation/cartoons such as Disney or Warner Brothers, or
genre-specific animation such as Japanese anime)
 Food
 Printed material (books, magazines, manga, comic books, or graphic novels)
Using the resources available in the classroom, the Walden Library, or Google Scholar,
identify at least two quotes, listing full reference details that speak to at least two of the
above categories and your chosen issue. Following the examples provided below, fill in
the information on the quotes you have identified.

Quote 1:

Source information: Stephens, C. (2018). MISTAKEN IDENTITY: Race and Class in

the Age of Trump. Retrieved August 30, 2018 from
https://www.popmatters.com/mistaken-identity-asad-haider-2575172878.html?
rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

Quote 2:

Source information: Williams, K. (2018). From the Women of Dahomey to Black

Panther's Women of Wakanda. Retrieved August 30, 2018 from
https://www.popmatters.com/women-of-wakanda-black-panther-2549866143.html.

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