After reading Gay in Emerging and Appiah in Week 10, choose one or the other for your paper/podcast. Then write the following blog post: Does this author (Gay or Appiah) see a problem in the pressures people feel to conform to expectations? How is the way this author sees the problem similar to Yoshino?
One of the problems was in the article of Appiah proposed was that a young movie director (who was black) thought the movie script wasn’t black enough “a young black director who’d grown up in a New York City housing project. Mr. Rich apparently worried that the script wasn’t “black enough” and proposed turning the protagonist’s father, a schoolteacher, into a garbage man. which means there is a problem with people trying to meet expectations.
Hi Harry–Try to say more in your posts than just a summary of the reading. Ask yourself “and so?” and then answer that by saying what you think the implications of the author’s ideas are. What do you think of what you are reporting from Appiah’s article? Carole