COMM 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Bell Hooks, Pseudoscience, Edward Said
20 Jan 2017
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Race as a social sorter, biological distinction: racism develops by pseudo-scientific doctrines of biological difference. Race & ethnicity as representations (ala stuart hall) Ethnicity as socially imagined: imagined communities bonded by territory, history and memory. Identity binds people together, creates systems (cornell. Identity as stage in a process of subjective construction (bell. Describes process of resistance and reconstruction by non- west: african independence from europe, india from britain, etc, study experience of suppression of race, gender, difference and migration. Against hegemonic historiography of race: the third world is a creation of the west that locks non- western cultures into imperial representation (spikvak) Colonialism: 18th and 19th century european imperialism and. Empire: colonized as the savage (inferior and depraved, domination of west. Orientalism: westernizing the non-west: the oriental as he or she came to be known in represented and contained by these dominating frameworks.
