Please answer two of the following short answer questions. Be sure to properly cite (use at least one direct quotation from) at least one text from Unit 2 per answer for a total of at least two different texts throughout the exam. Each answer should be about two pages long for a total of four pages. A fifth page should be your Works Cited/Bibliography page. You may use writing from your response papers. Do not use any material from outside the course. The exam is worth 20 points, and it will be graded according to the rubric on Blackboard. Exams are due November 1 no later than 11:59pm. Please review the extension and late policies on the syllabus.
1. What is “realness,” and why is it so important in ball culture? What different purposes does it serve? If you choose to answer this question, please cite both Paris is Burning and Bailey’s article.
2. bell hooks ends her essay like this: “We must make the oppositional space where our sexuality can be named and represented, where we are sexual subjects—no longer bound and trapped” (77). Explain what this means in your own words. Is the video WAP by Cardi B. and Megan Thee Stallion an example of oppositional space? Why or why not? If you would like, feel free to draw on other examples that might be examples of taking up this oppositional space.
Your exam should be typed, double spaced, in 12 point font with 1-inch margins and numbered pages. Citations should be done in MLA, APA, or Chicago format with a Works Cited or Bibliography page included.
Paris is burning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNE6nv3-l1w
WAP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsm4poTWjMs&feature=emb_logo
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