1. Select three tools of criticism that are best suited for understanding your

1. Select three tools of criticism that are best suited for understanding your proposed text/artifact and illustrate your understanding of those three tools of criticism
2. Justify why you have selected these tools and what they will allow you to assess/analyze/understand/intervene in.
3. Research and describe how other critics have discussed your artifact (or something similar)
TOOLS:
Ethnocentrism
Afrocentrism
Historical Reflexivity
Displacing Whiteness
Dougherty & Calafell’s thesis
Carrillo-Rowe’s thesis
Marxist Criticism
Base-Superstructure (materialism) – 3 ways
Cultural Hegemony
Preferred Reading
Standpoint theory
Gender as a Social Construct
Intersectionality
Patriarchy
Properly Public vs. Preferably Private 
Hammer’s thesis
Importance of Context
Rhetoric of the Image
Partial Seeing
Visual Freezing
Rhetorical Invention
Equipment for Living
Identification
Genre
Access to voice
Griffin’s Thesis


TOOLBOXS
Toolbox: culture centered criticism
Toolbox: Marxist crisiisiticm
Toolbox: feminist criticism
Toolbox: visual criticism
Toolbox: narative crisitsim