ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Hyphenated American, Nationstates
29 Nov 2018
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Four main solutions historically that anthropology has identified and studies: (1) the annihilation of difference. Two principle conceptual foundations: (i) the identification of difference with inequality and inferiority (ii) the misrecognition of sameness (thinking that he/she is just like me) which therefore denies real difference (the truly other) >> difference = inequality; sameness = equality (2) the acceptance of difference with institutionalized inequality (3) the acception of difference with institutionalized equality. - liberal us american solution: = the hyphenated american (4) the eroticization of difference. - cortes and his indian mistress, la malinche. An example of equality as sameness: the pregnancy disability act of 1987: feminist critique of liberal citizenship. - fundamental problem of sameness and difference :: equality and inequality. - critique of the difference-neutral version of liberalism and the mold of sameness. - critique of assignment of prior formative attachments to the private sphere of society.
