ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Queen Latifah, Ethnography, Headache
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A few quick points about rave in contemporary north america: we are interpolated into our racial identities. Hailed or called into our racial identities. Don"t have these identities until we are called into them, and then the identity sticks. Someone says hey bitch and you respond, you are now that bitch when you weren"t before responding. Queen latifah gets looks in her office for an ok on racist jokes, so she is now the token black person in the office: even liberal attitudes reproduce deep racist structures. Even an act of seeming liberal benevolence, including people in the culture and asking people about their own culture, promotes racist structure. B&s: violence as a continuum that spans: structural. Part of how the world works, violence inherent in the system: symbolic. The mechanisms that lead subordinated people to see their inequality as natural . Leads these people to blame themselves for their unequal representation: everyday/intimate.
