AN324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Massey Lectures, Bow Tie, First Nations
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Thomas king (1943-, noted novelist and broadcaster who often writes about north america"s. An advocate for first nations causes: of cherokee and greek descent. Difference provides entertainment: you are not the indian i had in mind . Cognitive dissonance that comes up from the point of view of dominant society: played up the stereotype of the indigenous person, wearing a tux and bow tie at the oscars. What happens from a lived experience when they are confronted by stereotypes others have of them. This quality of difference, whether constructed through a bio- determinist or culturalist idiom, is what constitutes the social category and material phenomenon of race (faye harrison. 1998: 613: ethnicization of race, ability of groups to shed their racial stigma and integrate into dominant society, irish in the u. s. Able to ethnicize precisely because they accepted the racialization of black americans.
