Women's Studies 2158A/B Lecture Notes - Faith Ringgold, Mel Ramos, Squaw

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2158A/B
• Professor: Sonia Halpern

Document Summary

Lecture 012 considerations of race and ethnicity in western art. Ii blacks in the u. s: male artists, female artists. Iii natives in canada: male artists, female artists. Iv conclusion: major themes of course. Most profound racial relationship in us is between blacks and whites, in canada it is between whites and natives. Not just white women attracted to post-modernism; also minority women attracted to post- modernism because: they were women experienced sexism and injustice, experienced injustice as belonging to a minority group. We call this a group who has experienced a double oppression; minority and women. Racism against women is a kind of sexism; and that sexism toward minority women is a form of racism. Historically, black was based on blood ties and lineage, and not necessarily your skin colour. Black woman is mammy stereotype; nurse-caregiver type, depicted as this woman treated as part of the family, but she"s not really part of the family because she"s a domestic servant.