AN101 Study Guide - Final Guide: White Supremacy, Mccarthyism, Indigenous Peoples Of Mexico
Document Summary
Becoming indigenous: cultural difference, and national identity in canada. Constant theme in debates about canadian identity is the notion that canada is marginal to and victimized by various forms of colonialism, most recently, by. The idea that canada is a marginal and defenseless victim depends on highly gendered images. Gendered images portray canada as victimized by external others, creating the fiction of a homogenous and unified body, and also erasing the ways in which the. Canadian nation victimized its internal others on the basis of race, culture, gender or class. These metaphors create a notion of national innocence locating the oppressors outside the nation, rather than inside. Sites of identity production such as the media, museums, art and advertising create narratives of nationhood which stand for and represent shared experiences which give meaning to a nation. We therefore see ourselves as members of an imagined community.
