ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Racialization, Semiotics, Denotation
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The genealogy of black and white race- how did history make it possible for us to understand these concepts/notions and come up with such an idea. Words/elements of language is one kind of sign system. The form of signs: signifier and signified. Three kinds of signs: icon, symbol, index. Unravel (deconstruct) the social construction of invented (but real), categories like race, national identity, or gender. Discover their genealogy: what in history makes them possible. This (cid:449)o(cid:396)k (cid:373)ust p(cid:396)e(cid:272)ede a(cid:374)(cid:455) ad(cid:448)i(cid:272)e a(cid:374)th(cid:396)opologists (cid:272)a(cid:374) gi(cid:448)e o(cid:374) (cid:449)hat is (cid:396)ight o(cid:396) (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:396)(cid:396)e(cid:272)t(cid:863) Race does not derive directly from natural facts, but is the product of racialization. Almost any group characteristic can be racialized: ethnicity, religion, skin colour.
