GGRC24H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Django Unchained, Donna Haraway, Scientific Racism
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Race and nature 1: scientific racism: science gets enrolled in this process of nature, measuring skulls etc. Django unchained and the racist science of phrenology: what it means to be white and black in this context has to do with different species, bodies are important for understanding this. Race and nature phrenology: how colonial science gets mobilized to justify not just slavery, but dispossession and occupy of land, quote #1. Same discourses happening in the us around slavery were also happening in south africa: quote #2. These quotes illustrate the ways in which claims to peoples bodies and understanding of skulls can get justified and dispossession of people through south africa to peoples skulls. We still have these discourses maybe about religion and cultural dispossessions to race. Today we talked about the body and the relationship between nature and culture. Or harroways claim about the traffic between nature and culture.
