This course explores the ways in which objects and material culture embody personal narrative. Moving back and forth from ephemeral traces of events and experiences to the culturally invested luxury goods that create legacy to the objects that facilitate daily life, this class will use, as its primary references, examples that draw from queer and African American cultures to underscore the potential of objects to tell the stories that not only reflect majority traditions and experiences but those of the disenfranchised, the details of whose lives are often obscured. In addition to readings that will provide background for class discussion, student will be asked to play the roles of detectives, archeologists, and curators at various sites around New York City. Each student will also be asked to create an annotated material record that reveals the public and private lives of one individual. That record may consist of texts, objects or any variety of media chosen or designed by the student. This blogs serves as an archive for the work done in the context of this course and related materials that become relevant to this exploration.

Monday, November 24, 2014

Pink VS Blue

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141117-the-pink-vs-blue-gender-myth

This article gives a really interesting look into gender and the colors typically assigned to it. As adults, men and woman both are drawn to the color blue, while more woman and than men are attracted to warm, red tones. However, in the early stages of life, children are drawn simply to primary colors like blue and red, excluding pink entirely. However, there is no correlation at that age between gender and color choice. Once children become toddlers and aware of their own gender, girls begin to be drawn to pink and boys are strongly repelled by pink, choosing blue instead. It's an interesting look at how culture influences perception of gender.

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