NEW240Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Audre Lorde, Asian Canadians, Critical Inquiry
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Space, Location, and Resistance
●Video: Coffee Coloured Children
○Shows the trauma of normalcy
●Resisting of oppression, reclaiming of voice
●Process of “untying our tongues”
○Telling stories in a way that is not sugarcoated, not in a way that the dominant can
feel comfortable with
●Directing our rage, not at ourselves & those closest to us, but at the system/structure
●Politicized expression of rage & anger
●Audrey Lorde article
○Critiqued the omission of input in that conference from poor women, Black women,
Indigenous women, lesbians, etc
○“What this says about the vision of this conference is sad, in a country where… it
means that only the most narrow perimeters of change are possible) → pg 110-111
○Space= space of marginalized social differences
○Location= an understanding of the politics of difference
■Awareness of power & privilege
●Are we complicit in practices of oppression?
○Razack→ concept of unmapping, beginning to become conscious of what stories are
being mapped onto particular ppl
●Seizing the pain of oppression and using it as a site of analysis and critical inquiry
●Decolonization→ Johan
○Love as a revolutionary practice & a political, social activity that is integral to a
pedagogy of rage
●Praxis of rage
○“We as people of colour must recognize that… then we begin to see how others are
also suffering” → Johal, pg 278
●Pedagogy→ the art/science/method of teaching
○Implies that an individual (a teacher) teaches students using a particular method in
order to communicate a given set of knowledges
●Pedagogy→ a methodology that has a spiritual component
○Certain principles & parameters
○Involves nurturing of critical consciousness
○problem→ much of what is referred to as pedagogy does not represent this aspect
■Actually pedagogies of alienation
■Students of differences are expected to amputate their embodied
knowledges & cultural ways of knowing as a starting point for learning &
success
●Forced to deny their collective histories/pasts
■“What I learned a lot from the women in the feminist activist collective...the
double prejudice faced by women of colour was not a major issue for them”
→ Li reading, pg 53