POL381H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: De Jure, Human Geography
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Race, identity & political thought ii (blackness and. Political / economic dominance of "the west" as the "outcome of a history of political oppression" Current political state founded on (and perpetuated through) the injustice of racial domination. Changes in de jure application of rights doesn"t eliminate historical effects. Critical of the "pretense that formal juridicial equality is sufficient to remedy inequalities created on a foundation of several hundred years of racial privilege. " Sharpe uses visual/literary imagery to consider how the trans-atlantic slave trade continues to affect the lives of black people. Within "the larger antiblack world that structured all our lives" Also acknowledgement/development of "black aesthetic and other modes of deformation and interruption" Not theorizing from the pov of an ideal of equality, but from a recognition of constitutive inequality. Rejecting disciplinary methods that obscure experiences and known truths. The "unequal distribution [of privileges, resources, power] benefits whites and disadvantages people of colour overall and as a group]
