SOSC 1502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Abuse, Public Space, Male Privilege
5 Dec 2013
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Film: race, the power of an illusion (part three) All three episodes of the film can be accessed online from the york library catalogue (in the streaming video format) Black women + white man = slave child. White women + black man = free child. The nation-state: a projected fantasy, common national identity, common language, common memory and forgetting, common future, common sense of its others (enloe, 222) Fact or fantasy: the fantasy of homogeneity: the ideal nation-state presumes a tight fit between nation and state: if a state is a vertical creature of authority, a nation is a horizontal creature of identity. The state"s relationship to women: renaturalizing the public/private, state interventions: states often to attend to women as women (pettman, 179, responsible for reproducing citizens and workers of the state (biologically and socially) as wives and. Main arguments in film: cant link race to biology, cant put people into categories based on physical appearance.
