PCUL 1F92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Popular Culture Studies, White Supremacy, Heterosexism
6 Nov 2014
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Contemporary power relations place each person within a broader network of power . Each subject is part of, though not wholly identical to, the broader networks of power we are part of the relations of power (phillips 133) Ideologies (ideological processes and practices hail us and we respond: we internalize ideological conventions and imperatives (martin 36, we are constituted (ongoingly) as social and cultural subjects. Myths, ideology and history: supplementary meanings connotations (second meanings, denotation [the literal meaning], reproducing ideologies, interpellating consumers (martin 22-23) Primary principle : to transform history into nature (barthes qtd. In martin 23: conceals and obscures actual histories, gi joe: disconnected from a specific event, the scar references no history and thus contributes to collective amnesia. Concealing history, concealing relations of power: blackface minstrelsy, racist history concealed - practice appears innocent, racism obscured but not erased. Blackface can never be disassociated from the vicious legacy of white supremacy and institutionalized anti-black racism .
