ANTH 2170 Quiz: Cass Anthropology notes.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 2170
• Professor: Maggie Mac Donald

Document Summary

Colonialism, sexuality, and the black female body: racism stems from the development of stereotypes created by those in power to prove racial superiority of the white race, sexism: women are the most exploited and degraded in western popular culture most noyably non white females, national geographic mostly white male westernized gaze; manipulated depiction of the non white cultures, dark skinner assumed to be poor/backwards; simple tools; more rituals or religious ceremonies opposed to intellectual thought/science; depicted in groups and avoided in intimate protrayals, sara baartman young african woman; brought to europe to be showcased to white audiences for her big buttocks; scandalous and popular in europe; contiguously studied, relevant to nicki minaj; for her big buttocks; colonial /white commodity baartman embraces this; nicki minaj power ver sexuality whereas baartman was the powerless victim, non white women othered savage and vulgar whereas white females are wholesome and modest american woman.