Begin by looking at a specific visual or textual representation of people in the news, and consider the ways that representation offers, denies, or constructs conditions of legitimacy for them as individuals, communities, or states. Who gets to be a legitimate member of the community, how do we know this, and why? How and why is legitimacy, statehood, or inclusion denied? Use Said’s essay as a lens to develop a specific argument about the process of legitimization at work in the text that you have chosen. Explore one or more of his pairs of terms—presence and absence, mobility and insecurity, dislocation and location, statelessness and exile—as a way of considering what is lost and what is gained in our textual representations of one another.
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