SOCI 3251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Robert Taylor Homes
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Colonialism premised on the notion that the colonized other is inherently inferior, weak, or evil. The second set of issues raised by the notion of the other turns our attention from the colonizers to the colonized. Refers to all the scientific and academic disciplines whose purpose is to study oriental cultures and customs. A more general sense as a style of thought the ideological suppositions, images, and fantasies about a region of the world called the orient. A source of power for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the orient. Racial conceptions change based on what social area we"re in. Race isn"t fundamentally about what people are but what it does for a managerial organization. Shabazz centers the robert taylor homes to demonstrate these relationships between urban planning, architecture, and the carceral state and how they reinscribe racial oppression on society.
