HUMAN H141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Consumerism, Racialization, Cross-Dressing
28 May 2016
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Live acts and cheap amusements in urbanizing america. Exhibition of bodies that were racially, sexually, and medically different than the norm. Learn to aspire to not be like these bodies. Bodies that challenged gender, racial, and national boundaries. Nondisabled people of color from the us (became natives form the. Non-disabled people with visible differences (i. e. bearded women, fat women, very thin men, people with intersex conditions) A lot of labor that went to producing and constructing a particular body that was. Discrimination and arrests of people who were cross-dressers. Freak shows turned audiences into aware and vigilant judges of possible gender fraud. Part of what was desirable to audiences is to try to detect the gender of the performer and it created a chain reaction to talk about peers and other people on the street. What was defined as normal and abnormal teach american public what its boundaries were. Counter-experience to identify and connect with the people there.
