This four-page essay will take as its inspiration Nailed It, a 2017 documentary film, written and directed by Adele Pham. Your paper will adhere to the following guidelines:
- The first page or so will succinctly summarize the film's primary arguments, themes, and key points with respect to economic conditions in the US for immigrants and displaced persons (e.g., refugees), specifically Vietnamese Americans.
- For the remainder of the essay, you have TWO objectives:
1) to relate the film to the current context of Vietnamese nail salon owners and workers contending with conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, including anti-Asian racism as well as health and economic challenges, and
2) to link the film to propositions for social change presented in "Feminist Propositions for a Just Economy: Time for Creative Imaginations" in Kirk and Okazawa-Rey's, Gendered Lives: lntersectional Perspectives (560-562). In preparation, be sure to read background material, including Chapter 8, "Living in a Globalized World" (336-352) and Chapter 12, "Creating Change" (528-544) in Gendered Lives. - There should be no grammatical or spelling errors, misused words, punctuation errors, incomplete or run-on sentences, misplaced quotation marks, or incorrect citations.
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