Using Berglund’s “Making Race in the City,” critically discuss Chinatown as a space of tourism and spectacle.
4 pages, typed, double-spaced, and meet the definition of critical, college-level writing. You ARE REQUIRED to include quotes from the assigned text(s) for each prompt. Must answer these two questions: 1. Using Berglund’s “Imagining the City,” critically discuss the California Mid-Winter International Exposition of 1894 and what it tells us about San Francisco modernism. Cite specific examples of how we can think critically about this fair (e.g. commodification, race, gender, modernity, nature, etc.) in relation to modernism. Resource: Making San Francisco American by Barbara Berglund, Chapter 5: “Imagining the City” pg. 171-217. 2. Using Berglund’s “Making Race in the City,” critically discuss Chinatown as a space of tourism and spectacle. What kinds of critical issues does this bring up (regarding, for example, commodification, Orientalism, exclusion, and race)? Use specific examples in your discussion. Resource: Making San Francisco American by Barbara Berglund pg. 95-136
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