SOCB53H3 Lecture Notes - Racial Profiling, Edward Said, Cultural Imperialism
Document Summary
Classical colonialism is distinguished by economic exploitation, forced entry, and cultural imperialism through the imposition of new institutions and ways of thought . Winona stevenson: stealing people s land, houses, etc, forcing european ideals. Exploitation of the pre-existing population: genocides. Cultural imperialism (ideology: trying to change their ways of life. Justification of exploitation through othering : example: discourses that justify slavery. Notion that whiteness is superior: example: religious discourses. Religion took race as a marker of superiority. Postcolonial theorist, one of the first scholars associated with it. Becomes a discourse that helps explain the orient: culture and imperialism (1993) Orient is found almost exclusively in manifest orientalism; the unanimity, stability, and durability of latent orientalism are more or less constant. - edward said. Discourse about the orient, representational frame: frames current knowledge to generate new knowledge. Field of studies, academic and political doctrine.
