ANTB21H3 Lecture Notes - Language Ideology, Physiognomy, Social Fact
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* assignment 5-6 readings including at least one full week reading after midterms. How to challenge the seeming natural quality of many social identities (gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, etc. ) i. e. gender biological fact: testosterone vs estrogen the performative aspects of social identities; How language is used to help achieve them; Core qualities: race (color and physiognomy, physiognomy (facial characteristics) Vs other associated qualities: language, interactional behavior (language use, consumption (including food, religion, residence patterns, dress codes, type of work, gender roles, climate and environment, character, etc. * all these are signs of race and ethnicity race and ethnicity are not given by nature but are complex social facts. Supposedly natural characteristics are taken as indexes (signs) of a racial or ethnic essence. Outgroup contexts: threatening, lying, how they see us , ie. racialized associated with negative stereotypes.
