SOC 377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mass Production, Consumerism, British Land
25 Apr 2019
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Scientific = smaller scale, white man"s burden, genetics . Commodity = evolutionary and teleological formulations of racism were packaged into commodities. Mass production and distribution allowed these products and their embedded ideas to reach the masses . Can be clean as back but always inferior soap , white arpon, mirror (reflection), monkeys. Black women rarely depicted in victorian advertisements. Capitalism and colonialism inevitable associated together. Creating the other : inventing tribes", indians", and aboriginals. Structures of knowledge production and invention of traditions. Blame west, lost traditions, drug addiction/alcoholism, environment degraded, consumerism. So many cultures, no common language, all over country. Between april to mid-july 1994: 500,000 - 1 million killed. Rape as a women of war, spread of hiv. British putting africans together causes huge resistance compared to putting together people from american and australia. Seen as conflict between arab and africans. Switch into the other one then you are that over what you originally were.
