KS210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Rastafari, Dancehall, Masculinity
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African symbols stereotypes of black society: a dundus in jamaica during yellowman"s early life would have been thought to be: sterile, which of the following ways is one of the ways yellowman revalorized the dundus: as sexualized. Recap: racialized and gendered understandings of bodies theorize them as having immutable. Natural or biological meanings: pop music both reproduces this but can also challenge it. Dundus: the albino body was a contested site of racial, sexual & gender identi cation, socially constructed as sexually impotent wit no claim to blackness. Radicalization: de ning skin colour the jamaican colonial experience, blackness was demonized in colonial area, without race . Blackness: blackness has gradually become one of the fundamental attributes of jamaican nationality, becomes imagined as a black nation , racial slurs: buckra (white), yellow man, white man. Yellowman: how does yellowman gain blackness, adopts symbols associated with rastafari and africa, and with a sexualized understanding of race.
