GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Convict Lease, White Supremacy, Sharing Space

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Sean Field

Document Summary

Kobayashi says geographies must watch language very carefully to ensure they are not creating. Political activism has enriched my scholarly understanding of social processes geographers can contribute to wider public understanding of the geographical basis of all social problems that involve sharing space. Essentialism ascribing essential and immutable qualities to a category of persons on the grounds of race or sex. Naturalism maintaining that such qualities are naturally" rather than socially produced, and therefore part of a natural order that cannot or should not be changed. Geography started as a colonial project, strictly political. Historically defined by religion: racism not just an ideology but an ontology, defined by social-cultural norms, we must challenge claims of inequalities and inferiorities of women and non-whites. Remains common to refer to appearances as though they were more simple: racism is a social-cultural creation. Michelle alexander poor people of color eternally placed in lower class, moral equivalent of jim crow.