Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kobena Mercer, Complete Control, Robert Mapplethorpe
22 Mar 2016
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Mit 2200f mapping media and cultural theory. Race is a concept which signiies and symbolizes social conlicts and interests by referring to diferent types of human bodies michael omi and howard winant, racial formaion in the. What is interesing is not the diferences between and among human bodies, but rather, the social conlict and interests that those bodies are made to signify or symbolize. We are interested in how the culture makes meaning of those bodies. 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, . Sex refers to biological/anatomical diferences that we can observe, whereas race refers to diferences that we may or may not be able to observe depending on the context. No physical or biological diference between humans of diferent races. Idea in our heads that allows us to divide up social resources, insigate/deal with social conlicts.
