We return with further analysis of American Hustle Life, Episode 2. This time, we look at mentorship styles, racial impersonation, theories of performativity, and more!
0:50 Mentorship styles - Dante, Jin, Suga
4:00 A stuffed ostrich…
5:10 Introducing footing (Goffman)
7:08 Changing footing with food
8:32 Two other seminal moments with this crew
10:27 Dante walks away
11:07 The terms of reaching across difference - power relationships
12:35 Contrast with Tony’s team: “good company”
13:38 A willingness to try things
16:00 Culture isn’t pure anyway
18:11 Nate’s a classic “best friend”
20:09 Nate’s role in the sandwich presentation
21:46 Blackface isn’t just painting your face… racial impersonation
22:20 An example from the Netherlands: Zwarte Piet
25:39 There’s a limit to calling it “cultural appropriation” - complexity to conversation
26:40 Caricature…but not for critical commentary (cf. Eric Lott, Love and Theft)
28:14 Where’s the reflexivity?
28:59 Breaking down Coolio’s response
30:44 Multiple layers to this difficult moment
32:55 If you don’t question… we don’t learn and grow
34:40 Wanting to see your faves do better
36:22 The kind of community we’re setting up for ourselves
39:48 Coolio’s philosophy about performance
41:00 Introducing Austin’s speech act theory
44:00 Butler has adopted Austin’s performativity and applied it to gender identity
46:50 There’s no essential gender identity - performance is all there is
48:00 We’re performing at every moment
48:52 A hip hop ethos that can pervade any aspect of life
49:40 For Coolio, the boundary between performance and living is blurred
51:00 A thick (thicc?) episode!
