SOCB53H3 Lecture Notes - Arab Spring, Critical Race Theory, Literary Theory
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Has been linked to: blood ties, lineage, nation. An older notion of race: identity, culture, geographic location, biological difference. In this course: premise that race is socially constructed, product of knowledge and power, focusing on the modern idea of race. Cornel west: the initial basis for the idea of white supremacy is to be found in the classificatory categories and the descriptive, representational, order-imposing aims of natural history. This ideal was drawn primarily form classical aesthetic values of beauty, proportion, and human form and classical cultural standards of modernization. Into the classification of the natural world, specifically plants. Divided humans into different races based on appearance. European: covered with close vestments, governed by customs . Had more to do with nations, but still problematic. Because they were not scientifically sound and he classified some races as being superior over others. Thomas jefferson on intellectual faculties of black people.
