HREQ 1920 Lecture Notes - Hijab, Symbolic Power, Racialization

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1920
• Professor: Elizabeth Brule

Document Summary

Richard dryer stereotypes come from the process of typing (categorieze) we categorize by roles , gender, horoscopes, personality sites stereotypes are fixed ethnocentrisim norm of one culture defines what becomes all cultures. We create huge binary one term defines the other! So gets to govern and have the upper hand . Superiority symbolic violence embedded in discourse! things are said in the deeper story things that are not said and not mentioned! There is a fear of mixing of black blood with white blood! How these stereotypes get affirmed the black sexualized body is embedded historical that is often unspoken. Involves the substitution of an object for a dangerous! stereotypes are embedded in such practices and then are predominant.