NEW240Y1 Lecture Notes - Racialization, Canadian Identity
Document Summary
January 23, 2014 racialization of space: part two: race: associated with both place and space (jane and finch, south side. All of this is erased when space is racialized. How is the racial construction of canada perceived: thingification: equalling colonization. This process occurs as racialization equates to thingification. Renders marginalized people as those who are marked for inferiority. They become invisible and disposable: historical context: erasure of history that underpins racialization, clean land/identity: europe. Non-racialized bodies (white, male): islamaphobia discourse: alien values that attempt to sully our identities. Racist ideologies that have attempted to construct those of the east, or religious extremists, as primitive and alien. Group of seven (paintings): what is missing from these paintings which depict. These paintings have become synonymous with canadian identity, as sacred to canada"s history and ontological being. Fails to reflect history (world war i), no human bodies, lack of urban landscape and/or trade. Paintings absent of genocide, racial cleansing, blood, residential.
