ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gallo Pinto, Neocolonialism, European Colonialism
28 Mar 2016
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Film, big sugar highlights: 1) legacies of colonialism (eg. dominican republic s sugar cane plantaion industry and exploitaion of haiian migrant workers); 2) environmental implicaions of sugar industry; 3) the power and inluence of sugar lobbyists. Sugar inimately linked with european colonialism, the industrial revoluion and now, neo- colonialism. Donkey in front of sugar mill ruins, st. john, usvi from symbol of exploitaion to tourist atracion. For a lot of the black individuals that are descendants of slaves, the donkeys are a painful reminder of neo-colonialism and colonial exploitaion. Noions of class and gender, very ambiguous. The intensiicaion of worldwide interconnectedness and exchanges at economics, poliical and/or cultural levels. Most of the foods we consume are the by-product of cross-cultural trade and contact. Most of our staples are not originally from this part of the world and/or they cannot be grown here sugar, cofee, tomatoes.
