LY200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Jim Crow Laws, Discourse Analysis, Deconstruction
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Moving well beyond using a single uniied structural analysis. The goal of the aricle is to use a discourse analysis and to re-inscribe back into the discourse concepts of race, gender and colonialism. Thesis the trial as a discourse let out concepts of race, gender and colonial dominaion. Her primary concern is that the defense atorneys didn"t want this to be seen as doing anything with race, gender or colonial history. Concerning the issue of gender, she menions that the occurrence of violence is like a day to day thing. To situate the trial as spacialized justice. o o. Pamela george (some girl who got murdered) physically occupies a disincive space that separates her from the upper and middle class people. The balancing of scales is not concerned with that space. She wants to spacialize our jusice system. Starts by detailing empirical indings on something and systemic discriminaion.
