AFRICAM 27AC Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Petrus Camper, Essentialism, Second Sight
23 Jan 2017
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Exam guidelines: 7 ids, choose 5, write 2-3 sentences. Explain its larger significance w/in the context of this course: 2 essay questions, choose 1, write 3-4 solid, info packed paragraphs, use examples and evidence from across course material. Example: we use language of color to describe race race is about superficial traits: racial formation : t he sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed. Example: africans tribes africans blacks slaves (commodity) Emancipation implies blackness different b/c ppl free: whiteness also re-articulated when blackness changes, racial project : simulta neously an interpretation, representation, or explanation of racial dynamics, and an effort to reorganize & redistribute resources along particular racial lines. Examples: affirmative actio n, gerrymandering, busing (desegregation), white supremacy, Essentialism : the belief in real, true human, essences, existing outside or impervious to social and historical context: racial dictatorship : norm against which all us politics must be measured, american identity = white.
