Choose an artifact from the any archive, digital, and investigate a discussion this artifact provokes around a current issue of your choosing. Using this artifact and at least 4 additional external resources, explore the initial context of the facilitating work, the current conversation around that topic regarding dominant and counter narrative(s), and make an original and interpretive argument within the larger discourse you are examining.
Your resources must also include (as one of the 4) a theory texts/ lens text that applies a body of scholarly knowledges to your topic. The other 3 texts are of your choosing but should be diverse and rigorous (see below).
Your resources should include those that put the work into historic context and those that examine the current discourse you are engaging in. Your goal is to use theoretic source(s) to put this discourse into a broader context, while also presenting primary sources to illustrate your larger idea about the conversation that the artifact provokes.
There should also be source(s) that support your assertion of the dominant and counter narrative of your artifact.
Consider the aspects of BEAM as we have discussed in class to help guide you as you research, write, and revise: how is your contribution to this conversation adding to, and building upon, the existing discourse?
How does this relate to your reader and the world in which they live today?
