Cultural Citizenship and the Body Politic – Lecture 6 (Monday Feb 11th)
Another variable in globalization, and understands the other global
Another variable = gender and labor
This weeks variable = race
Ant has 2 main fields/familys
1. Social ant (British way of social structure)
2. Cultural ant (American – diff set of questions, still how do we make sense of the
other, but more interested with culture in response to scientific racism at play)
-now we talk about social cultural ant.
Do certain races have specific features
Ex. Tamil south Indian race, fit into certain physical attributes
Whether you are welcome in ones country/house, depends on race/culture/gender
-they come together simultaneously
Race exists b/c it influences on how you are treated – allocations of resources etc
-no such thing as a PURE race, not biological rather a social construct
--do upon others what you would to yourself
categories placed upon you change when you cross borders
Ex. Prof, in Singapore was indian, in Guyana was white, in London was Asian
-race is real.
MIA- Born Free
Ask yourself what the discourse of race and the image of redheads have to do with each
other?
-everyone in the bus was male, and had red hair
-left for target practice
*Irish and English
*reference to MIA past, sri Lankan tamil, how the past was something like that
People have power deem certain groups as better qualified etc
Structural violence: institutions you live in create barriers for you
Aime Cesaire
Black French man of African decent, philosopher
Founder of black movement, getting voiced to colonialism that had affected African
colonies
Metaphor: Hitler is not dead – idea of Hitler, what he represented, is not dead, still
alive in all these things in the world
-he created to prosecute a group of people – violence that comes with these racial
types still exits, whether it’s about the blacks, jews etc
There are limits to every hospital action and tolerance, we have to tolerate each
other b/c we are all diff, we need to live peacefully together
When, and how, do you come to recognize yourself as belonging to a Race/race?
When do we come to acknowledge what race we are “I only am aware of race, when someone asks me”
when we decide to recognize ourselves as separate from a group
Race as ideology
ideology does not reflect the real world but represents the “imaginary relationship
of individuals” to the real world
-the imaginary relationship to the real world
-we are always in this ideology b/c of the reliance on lang
-lang creates these barriers
-we can’ tlive outside lang, b/c how to do we communicate? – need it to say who is
diff/similar to each other
constituting concrete individuals as subjects
-we create ourselves, have diff hobbies, likes/dislikes, all these diff individual traits
-but in our head we walk around saying I’m this person, I like eating this,
-we are constituted as subjects—there is a way of describing you
creating subjects: interpellation
through the words that are used, they are turned into subjects
ppl respond to ideologies and recognize they are lang
-don’t actually think about it and say it’s us.
Being hailed
by responding they recognize they are a certain subject.
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