SOCY 235 Lecture 9: Week 5, Lecture 9 and 10 Eurocentrism and Speaking for Others
13 Feb 2017
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Week 5, lecture 9 and 10 eurocentrism and speaking f. Imaginative and institutional context that informs contemporary society. Eurocentrism is something that we"ve been totally marinated in. Important to deconstruct and understand eurocentric knowledge systems (and indian residential schools) because it eroded indigenous knowledge systems. All of us are marinated in eurocentrism: not just an attitude or ideology, multiple layers of systems and knowledge - institutions: politics, law, media, education. Subverted, made invisible the indigenous view of land, knowledge systems and languages. Transplanted knowledge requires formal compulsory eurocentric education systems about homeland and language. No possibility of africans being equal to americans. Characters in her novel were not following typical stereotypes of african people. If you show a group of people as the same thing over and over again, they will become defined by that one thing. To insist on one story creates stereotypes -- stereotypes are incomplete because they don"t tell the whole story ing for.
