5/14 Draft Questions - Abby Hecko


  1. In the text, Voicing  Citizenship: Undocumented Women and Social Media, it states the right to speak on social media is a great right seeing as these women don’t have freedom of speech, due to their undocumented status. In this article it states, “To be able to speak could, in cyberspace, be more important than being widely heard in cyberspace,” (64). Why is this? If your words aren’t reaching anyone how is that  more impactful?
  2. Watkins and Caines write that HipHop is “acting as an expression of identity and culture as well  as a practical toolkit for survival in dangerous conditions,” in their text, Cyphers: Hip-Hop and Improvisation, (1). Today, much of the popular rap industry music revolves around sex and drugs. When the roots of HipHop and Rap came from a place of culture and protection, how do artists feel that the industry had morphed into something less culturally significant?
  3. Ana Gabriela Cano aka Black Mama. Where does the name Black Mama come from?  What is the significance behind it? Who and what events inspired the name?
  4. In the video titled, “Origin,”  she speaks of how her language of kichwa has shaped her and changed her life. I have never thought of speaking english as one of my defining cultural characteristics, but I recognize what a privilegde it  is to speak  english as I do. How does Kichwa shape her identity? Besides  h=being how she speaks, does Kichwa shape her community, her career, her family? And  how so?

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