CANS 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pocahontas
21 Nov 2015
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Hide exhibit--curated by indg woman, lots of content/variety/artists. Verb--to hide--but this is clearly rejected, as seen by catalog cover. Treated animal skin, used as material covering b4 cloth--for clothing, moccasins, Idea of hide used thru/out to talk abt issues in indg identity/culture. Challenges racialized classifications coming from both eurs and those taken up. Idea of hybridity--proposed as an antidote for old stereotypes/romanticism. Essentialism--fixed, nationalist truths re: identity and identification (ex: stereotypes) Hybridity--disturbs fixed/static colonial identities, ex: colonizer and colonized--it articulates and values cultures across and between cultures. Howev, this implies that 2 cultures are being stitched 2gether 2 make 1 unique bags by indg ppls identity. Problematic bc it doesn"t acknowledge cultural interactions before/since colonial. Title plays on edward curtis" photograph the vanishing race . Took pics of himself+friends, then had them draw on top abt an experience/encounter w/ racism. Jeff thomas, how do you measure up? --bear portraits series. This leads to equation of identity w/ race.
