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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hebdige say handicaps blacks?

2. In Chapter 7, Hebdige focuses on something and how it affects the definition of a subculture. What is it that he focuses on?

3. Which of the following represents a product style?

4. What does Hebdige say style articulates between the dominant culture and subcultures?

5. Of the following, what specific item does Hebdige say transforms meaning when used by a subculture as opposed to the mass culture?

Short Essay Questions

1. In your opinion, what is the overall message that Hebdige gets across by writing this book?

2. How does Hebdige say the mass culture uses style?

3. In Hebdige's words, what causes George Jackson to think the way he does about black cultures?

4. What does Hebdige say about the existence of subcultures?

5. In your opinion, how does the content of this book affect present day society in America?

6. What does Hebdige say about the Punk subculture and how it outwardly expresses its views?

7. What factor of the white culture does George Jackson believe is an example of injustice to the black culture?

8. According to Hebdige, how do Punkers affect mass media?

9. In terms of its relation to the subculture, what does Hebdige say happens to the object's meaning once it goes back to the dominant culture?

10. What is Hebdige's thought on Skinheads and how they portray a masculine outlook?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is George Jackson? What are his opinions of the black race? Does he believes blacks are treated equally? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

When the parents of the Rastafarians who migrated from the West Indies to London did so, they wore brightly-colored clothes to represent their faith in a brighter future for London. This instead caused them to be targets of discrimination. If they had to do it all over again, do you think they should do it the same way? If yes, what would be the benefits of doing it this way? If not, why? What other ways would you suggest they get this point across? How would these ways benefit the people?

Essay Topic 3

What does the author say about common objects and subcultures vs. the dominant culture? What are common objects? Who decides how they are used? Is there only one use for them? If not, give examples that would support the idea that there are several uses for common objects.

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