SOC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Racialization, Edward Said

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 300
• Professor: Anne- Marie Singh

Document Summary

Orientalism depicts homogeneous ideas about a certain region (representations of cultures) Soc 300 race, thinking, and muslims: created by edward said, the book orientalism" formed a shift in academic studies of power and representations of cultures. Images are depicted in order to confirm dominant ideologies: western discourse of the orient, style of thought with distinctions between ontological (what we see as reality) and. Epistemological (the way we understand reality) concept of the orient: style of thought based on distinctions structured between the eastern (orient) and. Western (occident) orient helped define the occident through the logic of us" vs. Them": western style of dominating authority over the orient, new form of racism relies on distinct categories (not cultural or genetic) targets cultural practices or world views. Racialization: robert mills, process of delineating a group"s boundaries and of allocating people with those boundaries by reference to biological characteristics, emphasizes the process over time and historicizing race.