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Remix Project
Sinophobia: A Secondary Epidemic
“[I]n our era, a mix of images and sounds makes its point far more powerfully than any eight-hundred-word essay in the New York Times could”
(Lessig 74).
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted or threatened the lives of everyone around the world. However, it occurred against a backdrop of xenophobia against Asians and Chinese in particular.
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The above image is a diptych of collages that juxtapose the ideals of culture and epidemics on the left with the reality that Chinese individuals face and have faced in the past.
I combined pre-existing media from visual and print sources to create a "remix" and to participate in "remix culture," concepts discussed by law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig in his book Remix (2008). This was part of a class assignment for Honors Collegium 50: Creating Your Roadmap.
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