Document Type
Review Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
While attending Bowling Green State University in 1997 I had an experience that changed my worldview. I was a teaching assistant in the Popular Culture department and part of my responsibilities included teaching "Introduction to Popular Culture" (POPC 100) and "Introduction to Mass Media" (POPC 165). I had been struggling to engage my students in examining the way in which social reality is represented to them through popular entertainments [2]. The majority of my students were white, middle class students from the surrounding Northern regions of Ohio. My students were well-versed in the ongoing controversy over whether or not universities were attempting to indoctrinate them into a radical form of political correctness and many stated that their parents voiced concerns about attempts to alter their religious and political upbringing. To complicate matters my upbringing in urban Southern California marked me as a "permissive liberal agitator" who didn't understand "how things were in the more sensible parts of the nation" [3].
Repository Citation
Benton, Michael. "On Guillermo Gomez-Peña's "El Mexterminator" and "Cyber Vato"." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 2, no. 4, 2002, pp. 1–10. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol2/iss4/8
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