GEOG 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Intersectionality
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Orientalism is made up as a social construction used to describe others. The east is always in relation to us. Profiting from exploitation of an individual"s culture. Skin color and perceived/actual history and how it applies in social context. Painting of couples/family graphs racial hierarchy created by spanish in the colonial. The myth of race debunked in 3 minutes . Divisions of race allowed those who were superior to feel okay about oppressing others (ex. slavery) Race is a fiction ted talk. Racism as a theory of practice of discrimination matters. Black slavery becomes permanent and heritable (you can be born as a slave) 1922: the courts decide who is white. What is the concept of being naturalized? being made a citizen. 1924: black people = any drop of african ancestry.