GNDS 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Trans-Cultural Diffusion, Louis Althusser, Eurocentrism
19 Oct 2016
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Why do we get uncomfortable with the content or some things that are said in this class being someone of privilege. Thomas kings you"re not the indian i had in mind . Whiteness is a historical fiction by which people are judged and made to think if they are actually part of the culture or even seen as people . Who or what is the indian references in king"s title: society as a whole is the i that is being spoken about. Indian take representations from various fantasies and stereotypes that people have and puts them all together and creates a stereotype which is hemoginist and unchanging over time because stereotypes don"t become more complicated over time. After going through being taught things that might not have been fully true: how we make our identity among each other as colonized people, how do they retain a self understanding of one"s identity. How does king ask us to think about:
