NO105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Vertical Integration, Color Blindness, Tribble
NO105 notes
upload before class that day at 9;00am (word or pdf)
5 topics on exams:
1. perception and misperception (NAFTA, narcotrafficking)
2. convergence vs. divergence (idea of similarities, the similarities between 3 countries vs.
Canada and us have much more in common than Mexico, the differences) (democratic racism,
colonization/colonialism, “blackness”)
3. continentalism (idea of all three countries have a common identity as a continent (ex. NAFTA)
and sovereignty (who has the authority) (war on drugs, migration food/labour)
4. asymmetry (relates to the idea of power, who has the power?) (citizenship, narcotrafficking,
NAFTA)
5. national identity (what does it mean to be Canadian or American, who we are? art, music,
policy…etc) (La Malinche, pocohontas, mixed race, music and art, popular culture)
Approach: interdisciplinary
-look at something together to look at a bigger global picture
methodology: how do those people know what they know? (ex. how does historians know what
they know, and how sociologist know what they know?)
-what kind of method is being used here
why do we start this course by thinking about indigenous women?
are we living in a post racial society?
-club native
-grew up positive
-neighbours were friendly
-knowing theres a sense of hate out there when she was 10
-worried about who she was
-summer 1990: protest and stand off happened
-they don’t date a white person, or marry them
-under 20000 (some native name) left in the world
-little kids in indian communities discriminated blacks, they were really young but they already
know the boundary
-discrimination everywhere, from indians and non-indians
Research assignment
-has to be scholarly research or no A
-find a broad topic (racism)
-find scholarly and primary sources related to the focused topic
(3 scholarly books)
(3 scholarly journal articles)
(1 primary sources)- newspaper, website, government document?
-provide full bibliographic entries for each sources (MLA format)
-explain each source in a sentence why your source is academic or scholarly
-use example in the instruction for MLA format
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NO105 notes
week 3
-stories of all three women helped us to understand perception and misperception (on the
exam), it also tell us the construction of national identity
-all three countries had a period of colonization and conquest
-the story of each of three women are symbolic
-the stories have been told and retold, shifted and changed, folklore is important of who tells the
story and when they tell the story
pocahonas: her story is told as one that takes place during colonization as a pure, virginal,
romantic princess
Thanadelthur: her story is that of a rugged, strong, powerful woman during the fur trade who
was a peacemaker, translator and negotiator who navigated the harsh northern wilderness
La Malinche: her story is fundamentally seen as that of a “loose” indigenous woman who is
scapegoated fort the brutal colonization of Mexico by the Spanish for plowing the colonizer to
penetrate her land during conquest
-all 3 countries, indigenous women played a very important role of national identity
week 4
-the article “goodbye to the gangsta,” was an academic case study about the way in which both
the NBA and the NHL “discipline, police and contain” young black men by favouring “white
cultural norms” over urban, black culture
-young black men have to conform to white norms, to appear more professional, to appease the
white customers
-new racism or democratic racism does the following:
-downplays
-denies
-is marked by colour blindness
-blames victims
-creates moral panic
-convergence between how to deal with the issue of race in the two countries
-pabst calls for a “transnational” understanding of blackness where we count for both routes and
roots
-talks about the optics of difference
-in the film speakers of the dead, we see the intentional erasure (removal) of black presence in
ontario. by removing headstones of early black pioneers, later while settlers are seen to be
taking them out of history and underscoring the story that white were the settlers.
the other side of immigration (film)
-cant get a good price when growing corn, it has been difficult to sell bc the cost of production in
Mexico is higher than US and Canada
-when farmers couldn't make a living anymore, everyone started migrating to the US
-they don't get back what they invested in
-american farmers receive more subsidies
-Mexico lacks capital, don't have any government support
-interdisciplinarity/methodology
-folklore
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Document Summary
No105 notes upload before class that day at 9;00am (word or pdf) 5 topics on exams: perception and misperception (nafta, narcotraf cking, convergence vs. divergence (idea of similarities, the similarities between 3 countries vs. Canada and us have much more in common than mexico, the differences) (democratic racism, colonization/colonialism, blackness : continentalism (idea of all three countries have a common identity as a continent (ex. Nafta) and sovereignty (who has the authority) (war on drugs, migration food/labour: asymmetry (relates to the idea of power, who has the power?) (citizenship, narcotraf cking, Nafta: national identity (what does it mean to be canadian or american, who we are? art, music, policy etc) (la malinche, pocohontas, mixed race, music and art, popular culture) Look at something together to look at a bigger global picture methodology: how do those people know what they know? (ex. how does historians know what they know, and how sociologist know what they know?)
