HUMAN 1C Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Colonialism, White People, Vietnam
12 Oct 2018
School
Department
Course
HUMAN 1C
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Angeni Muralidhar Spring 2018
Introducing Colonialism, Race, and Sex
Lectures https://tinyurl.com/blockcore
Overview
- Colonialism
- Race and Racism (Racecraft)
- History of Sex
Colonialism: Where and When
- Images of colonial North America
- Pocahontas – “how in the world can she RUN with that body shape”
Trans-Atlantic World
- Represents what is going on with colonizing North America
- Did not just provide information but created information
- Telling people how to get to other parts of the world (across the Atlantic)
- The maps that we colored in eighth grade taught us a version of conquest and
colonization
- Colonized America was already populated well before Europeans arrived
European View of Africa, 1644
- Produce knowledge and create ideas
- People on the side have the same skin tone and same clothing -- those who created the
maps had never seen those who inhabited Africa
- Animals on the map -- and there are sea monsters everywhere too
- Places that the Europeans who made the map had not charted
- Boundaries of nation states are of a European fashion
What’s in a name?
- “The Peopling of British North America”
- Were there not people before? What about the 187 native american nations?
- Discovery vs. Invasion
- Peopling vs. colonizing
- Wilderness vs. communities
- What does colonization look like when you are looking back at the advancements?
Demographics of Colonial North America
- Native Americans
- 7 - 18 million
- Africans Kidnapped:
- 1525-1866: 12.5 million
- 1600-1775: 388,000
- At Revolution (1776)
- 1.7 million
- 470,00 African descent
- ?? Native American descent
Race is Not…
- Biologic
- Objective
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- Trans-historic
- Just about Africans/ Black people/ non-white people
- About creating a system of white supremacy and establishing hierarchies
- We use identity as race very often
Race Defined Historically
- “Race is an ideology. It came into existence at a discernable historical moment for
rationally understandable historical reasons and is subject to change.” - Barbara Fields
Why Study History of Sexuality?
- Mural of Trump and Putin -- close relationship that should not be there
- Both are heterosexual men who are portrayed in media as manly
- Fascinating!
- Serious
- Sex vs. Sexuality
- Beyond sex acts
- Understanding societies
- Cultural meanings that go along with sex
- Conveys a sense of power as well
Theories Behind the History of Sexuality
- “Dense transfer point for relations of power” - Michel Foucault
- Ways of ordering society, conveying hierarchies of power
- Historicize
- De-naturalize
- “The Person is Political” - Carol Hanisch (1970)
- Not just who runs the government
- Intimate personal acts tells us much bigger things about society
- What does it tell us about gender, race, and about the power hierarchies in
colonial society?
Conclusion
- How can you rethink what you may think you know:
- About colonial America
- About Race
- About sexuality as an intellectual topic of study
- Future classes will explore different facets of these intersecting categories
- Race is something that society creates to structure their world
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Document Summary
Pocahontas how in the world can she run with that body shape . Represents what is going on with colonizing north america. Did not just provide information but created information. Telling people how to get to other parts of the world (across the atlantic) The maps that we colored in eighth grade taught us a version of conquest and colonization. Colonized america was already populated well before europeans arrived. People on the side have the same skin tone and same clothing -- those who created the maps had never seen those who inhabited africa. Animals on the map -- and there are sea monsters everywhere too. Places that the europeans who made the map had not charted. Boundaries of nation states are of a european fashion. About creating a system of white supremacy and establishing hierarchies. We use identity as race very often.
