Author Archives: kguil10

Cultural Hybridization

Bhabha states in “Questions of Cultural Identity”  (pg 54) “This ‘part’ culture, This partial culture, is the contaminated yet connective tissue between cultures- at once the impossibility of culture’s containedness and the boundary between. It is indeed something like culture’s ‘in-between’, baffling … Continue reading

Posted in Cafe Discussion, Kasia, Kimberly, Pipeloluwa, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Hijabi Edge

[youtube cNSWO8KdT1s] What is being made of Hijab fashion? Hijab street fashion?!   A look around the world and their turn on  Hijabi Fashion. [youtube TuI8A9XsXkY]  

Posted in Individual Research Journal, Kimberly, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Pop Culture Hijabi’s

So I have been looking into the hijab trends and the shifts in how the hijab has been wore throughout time. I will like to make a slide show or collection of pictures to show the variation in hijab trends … Continue reading

Posted in Individual Research Journal, Kimberly, Uncategorized | Tagged | Leave a comment

The Korean Punk :Recycled Culture Turned New

Through out our life time we have experienced or have gone through different phases of music styles and how we relate to the beats we listen to. For some teens in Korea the growing popularity of punk has been a phase … Continue reading

Posted in Cafe Discussion, Kasia, Kimberly, Pipeloluwa, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Hijab’s around the world: Fashion or Modesty?

So while I was thinking of options to look into for my personal case study, I though of my interest in the Middle East and Islam and how people express faith. I know  that most people could not tell the … Continue reading

Posted in Individual Research Journal, Kimberly, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

City Kid Struggles: The Reflection and Reproduction of Base and Superstructure with in the ‘Slums’ of NYC

Our Cafe Discussion this week consisted of our perspectives of Raymon Williams “Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory.” From our understanding superstructure of a society, the sources of legitimacy of our Ideologies through means of social convention is reflected and … Continue reading

Posted in Cafe Discussion, Kasia, Kimberly, Pipeloluwa, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment