WMNST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Appropriation, Meritocracy, Bakken Pipeline
Document Summary
Can often best feel and experience process of identity formation. Emphasis on micro level allows us to understand various identities to empathize and see people"s humanity, important corrective to distorted representations and stereotyping. Often times where people will ask who are you? and where are you from? in attempt to categorize and determine relationship to us. Complexities, con icts, and contradictions of multiple identities which we consider later. Media, eduaction, military, criminal justice system, religion, government legal system. Gender, race, and class are used to establish and maintain a particular kind of social order: who is excluded/included in social order. Colonization: european settler expansion to other territories. Tuesday, september 20, 2016: indigenous people were often described as backwards and savages , justi ed genocide through this language, today indigenous people are seen as vanishing people, rationalize neglect/erasure of long-standing resistance to colonization, colonialism is not over.
