AMCULT 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Arab Americans, God Forbid, Racialization
3 Dec 2017
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Imperialism functions to annex territory and resources, but not its people. Puerto rico is ours, but we don"t want to take responsibility for it right now [after. You only care about it when it serves your interests. They"re americans when you want them to be americans. They"re a territory when you want it to be a territory. The accumulation of images, texts, ideas, and other representations about a subject. An understood way of speaking about a subject. The domination of certain cultural forms over others through common sense/consent. The orient was an us v them . It helped europeans feel good about themselves, that they were better. While europe had its dark ages, arab-islamic empire was flourishing. Europe had to make itself look better, with better military, so they can take resources, etc. Said argues that these painters saw women dressed differently, and the painters were painting them dressed as they wished women in europe would.
