ETH STD 101B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: National Memory, Model Minority, Double Consciousness
18 Nov 2020
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Ways we define culture and how we view culture. Omi & winant = racial formation (constantly fixed & changing) Unified idea of what it means to be american. Born into kind of social contract -- uphold ideals & live according to law. Thesis : a critique of universalism in terms of the historically contradictory formation of. Form in contradiction to ways in which we define what american citizen is. Model minority = one who has assimilated fully. Countersite -- what emerges from this once it is formed. Forms as process of being othered & all intended intersectionalities. Ways of being viewed of a black man in america. Perceptual concept of always being seen through the eyes of others. Culture erupting--finding a way to express itself. Asian american culture as counter-site to official us national memory & national culture. Lowe critiques universalism underlying the concept of the nation as a unified.
