COMM 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hyperreality, Tupperware, Metanarrative

• School: Brock University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1F90
• Professor: Derek Foster

Document Summary

Part i: emphasis on discourses of race and ethnicity (and inclusion/exclusion) Part ii: emphasis on representations of race and ethnicity (and inclusion/exclusion) Modernity (homi bhabha"s) shadow history & third space . Ethnicity: the quality of a community of people possessing its own culture. Characteristics which identify an ethnic group may include a common language, common customs and beliefs, and a cultural tradition. Celebrating uniting in diversity (by bringing together a range of cultural groups within a larger identity. Celebrating integrating, and including all the different ethnic cultures that are part of one whole national culture. Two histories of the west: the history of positive, democratic, liberal ideals, the shadow history, the other (hidden) side of democratic, enlightened ideals , (slavery, racial extermination, religious persecution, colonial exploitation) A zone where new cultural meanings can be produced, beyond binary oppositions (colonizer, and colonized, homeland and foreign land, canadian and immigrant ) All identities and cultures are hybrids, mixes of old and new.