SMC219Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Black Skin, White Masks, White Supremacy, Intersectionality
2 Feb 2018
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Lecture 32: a politics of representation - hall. Meaning is never isolated in mimetic representation (imitation of the real); need decoding in perception of the image. All meaning = contextual, historical, and dependent via reader"s response. Race = entirely social construction (through paradigms of colonialism in order to establish power) Race through semiotic training - no essential meaning; changes based on reader and how well we understand the storyteller; meaning exists in tensional space between the author"s intention and reader"s understanding of it. Black object becomes the black subject: recognition of diversity of historical and cultural experiences of black subjects. Every individual = his/her own subject -> everyone has a different identity; can"t apply one essential black identity (would be like treating one as an object) How identities are represented in film/media will shift as we learn to deconstruct a social understanding of race.
