GNDS 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Caribana, Black Feminism, White Supremacy

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Gender Studies
• Course: GNDS 125
• Professor: Jane Tolmie

Document Summary

White supremacy: a social, political and cultural system that justifies systemic racism. It includes individual acts of meanness-these could be conscious or unconscious, but is not limited to them. Caribana: often conceptualized through discourse of securitization/surveillance, multiculturalism/diversity and celebration. It is important to recognize the importance of this cultural product and the ways it is taken up by the. Canadian government: securitization through the fence: the fence acts acts as a racialization, gendering and sexualizing agency amidst the discourse of multiculturalism, voyeurism or the privileging of spectatorship. In these ways the afro-caribbean body is made to be transparent or knowable, reinforcing hegemony.