CUL120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eugenics, Biopower, White Privilege

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Critical and Cultural Studies
• Course: CUL120
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Cul120: makes first appearance in english language around 1580, during age of enlightenment, europeans used biological concept of race" as a means o. Mod 1: what is culture/cultural studies? classifying groups of people according to genetic (and therefore cultural, intellectual and social difference: it then follows that race" develops as a concept in line with the continued diffusion of. European rationality, institutions, culture and control (blaut, 1992: 295) Race, religion and manifest destiny": idea that white people are religiously superior and thus their destiny to drive out nature and introduce culture. Colonialism: colonialism: the process by which an external power will lay claim to a territory by exercising. Blaut, the theory of cultural racism, 1992) military and/or economic power. Imperialism: refers to the forced imposition of the colonisers language, culture, politics and law etc. on the colonised territory or nation. Colonisation is not simply content to impose its rule upon the present and the future of the dominated country.