LAWS 3503 Lecture 3: LECTURE 3 - "Dear White People" film
10 Feb 2017
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Oofda modulates blackness depending on what crowd wants from them. Nose-job smooth their black edges and try to fit in; worst fear is that their blackness might draw undue attention so they use it to self-deprecate. 100 keeping it 100; being black as hell (cid:862)bla(cid:272)ke(cid:396) tha(cid:374) thou(cid:863) Not traditional structure no intro or conclusion. Avoid generalizing intros (cid:862)looki(cid:374)g white people i(cid:374) the e(cid:455)e(cid:863), he(cid:396)e(cid:374)e raza(cid:272)k. Looking people in the eye = cultural assumption; pla(cid:272)e to u(cid:374)pa(cid:272)k (cid:862)(cid:272)ultu(cid:396)al diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)es(cid:863) (oversimplification; used as a model for dealing with much more entrenched problems) Article is a challenge to the assumption that problems of racism can be fixed through an understanding of cultural differences. While understanding cultural differences may be important only part of issue. Cannot deal w/ racism without looking at history of domination/oppression & structural inequalities. Notion of eye contact as objectifying: can turn a subject into an object (cid:862)gaze(cid:863, eye of the colonizer depersonalizing, legal gaze, academic eye also depersonalizing/objectifying.
