ANT204H1 Lecture : lecture 3
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National geographic perpetuates old myths about black women s sexuality: colonial tropes: figurative as metaphor, symbolic sense. Colonialism rationalized through the use of tropes. a) Animalization: implies hypersexuality: sexual excess in opposition to the rationally ordered western subject. Sexuality like nature is held in opposition to civilization. Exotic, lying outside the realm of a social order, which commands the observance of things like sexual fidelity. Associates people with the instinctual realm rather than the cultural. Darwinist survival of the fittest. transferring a zoological notion to social socially constructed hierarchies. Body rather than mind: infantilization developing = everlasting infancy; diplomatic synonyms for. Childlike - people without a history presumed static, without long, cultural, economic & political histories. Suggests political immaturity of the other, deemed not ready for democracy. Assumes need for western rule: eroticization - the colonized world is represented as feminine: to justify invading it, penetrating it and conquering it as a matter of natural gender hierarchy.
