ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sub-Saharan Africa, Hutu, White Privilege
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Lecture 9 - constructing social identities and hierarchies. Identity flower: our identities are cultural and learned from the media, parents, teachers etc, scientific racism and intelligence - many racism claims are from religions. Identity is often associated with social inequality. racism has been criticized as discredited as they tried to measure the size of human skulls and develop a hierarchy to determine which race is superior and inferior. These studies were done which colonialism was dominating the world: how is race is a constructed concept, example 1- white and black africa. Africa is divided into north africa and sub-saharan. North america is more related to the european countries. This divide is the racialization of the continent. The sub-saharan desert is a boundary/barrier between the two africa"s, between the two different cultures and religions. Colonizers played a role in black and white africa. North africa is more like arabic countries and closer to.
