Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cultural Hegemony, Complete Control
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Race and racism: race: one of the least well understood terms in everyday parlance. Micheal omi and howard winant, radical formation in the us. In other words race isn"t real but racism is. But race unlike gender does not refer to biological differences. As a result racial differences are even more arbitrary than those of gender: distinctions assigned are even more arbitrary then the differences assigned based on gender. Blacks shown as not being able to command language. Algeria: which was then also a french colony. Fanon practiced institutional therapy in algeria which organized treatment around group activities within the hospital. Fanons writing influenced those engaged in anti colonial struggles all over the world (including some quebecois separatists) Just as i reached the other side i stumbled and the movement the attitudes the glances of the other fixe me there, in the sense in which a chemical solution is fixed by a dye, i was indigent,