CL 3/12

Initial reaction – Honestly, it’s a bit slow and hard to hold interest in so far as well as not having a clear picture of the message being put forth yet. I don’t have any strong opinions one way or another just yet on how anything is being portrayed.
- Further analysis – the historical context of the movie has heavy ideas of racism and white supremacy attached to it along with it being show in the white house under Woodrow Wilson, who also enacted the segregation of the Federal workforce. So far in the movie there are two discourse communities that I’ve recognized with a possible third. The first being that of the enslaved blacks though this could be questionable or assumed. The assumption being that they have a shared goal of freedom or liberty at this time though their only way of communicating such is verbally as most if not all are illiterate. Though, that verbal discourse could appear in the forms of both common speech and of song. The second discourse community I saw is that of the wealthy/elite whites who portray a multiliteracy through their writing (i.e. – letters) and speech. The possible third is the house slave serving the southern family since she is kind of an overlap of both communities but that doesn’t necessarily means she shares common goals with both communities but she could share common goals and views with other house slaves.

Jake’s Expanse