Reading: The Right to Look
Author(s): Nicholas Mirzoeff
Source: Critical Inquiry, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Spring 2011), pp. 473-496 Published by: The University of Chicago Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/659354 .
3 Three important ideas/arguments from the text
Which issues are motivating the article’s thesis? What does the author want his/her/their reader to know about this issue? Start with a 1-2 sentence summary describing the article’s overall line of reasoning. Then, paraphrase the author’s three important ideas and include in-text citations.
• “This article is about [main point #1, main point #2, and main point #3].”
2 Two things you learned from reading the text about popular culture and/or race- related issues (e.g., racial hierarchies and categories, the social meaning of race, or counter-visual strategies of representation or re-appropriation).
Introduce what you learned and explain how you know this and/or how it differs from previously held information or beliefs.
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“The first thing that I learned from this article was XYZ because of ABC.”
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“The second thing that I learned from this article was XYZ. I used to think that ABC.
1 One representative quote from the text that illustrates the overall argument and a brief explanation about why you selected this quote.