Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Frantz Fanon, High School Dropouts, Human Rights Watch
29 Nov 2017
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Mit 2200 mapping media & cultural theory: lecture 9. There is a fairly widespread consensus in the sciences of biology and anthropology that the word race" refers to nothing that science should recognize as real (anthony appiah, race 277 . We move through the world thinking that people are different races, it is important to understand what that means and doesn"t mean. In the 18th/19th century, people thought that people whose skin was different colours meant that they were biologically different. We thought we were talking about people with real physical/biological differences. Anthony appiah says that is not the case. Represents a shift that westerners have thought about race. Races are like witches: however unreal witches are, belief in witches, like belief in races, has had-and in many communities continues to have- profound consequences for human social life (cid:12254) Literal witch hunts in which thousands of witches were burned.
