Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Robert Mapplethorpe, Algerian War, Isaac Julien

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G
• Professor: Sasha Torres

Document Summary

Race week 10: race is a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies. A way we distribute social resources by attributing the distribution of the differences in human body. What we do with those differences not the differences themselves. There are no biological differences between different races. Race and gender: like gender, race attributes social and cultural meanings to different kinds of human bodies. A system of cultural meanings that attributes different meanings to different kinds of human bodies. Making up differences assigning those differences. Race is a discourse: all the things to say/do about a specific topic in a specific moment, like other kinds of discourse, race is assembled from texts and practices, and is historically and culturally specific. From martinique to france: born in martinique (carribean, served in french military in wwii, went to france to go to medical school (psychiatrist)