ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Critical Race Theory, Race Today, Environmental History

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Environmental Science, Policy, And Management
• Course: ESPM 50AC
• Professor: Spreyer Kurt

Document Summary

Fl"16-4 - race, racism & representation - outline. Today: brief overview and synthesis of last two lectures. Policies of racial discrimination formed a racial landscape and affected the alertness. Campanella: low-income, colored victims primarily of the storm. Kelman: segregated economic, socio-economical, environmental conditions led to segregated suffering: critical race theory: winant and omi. Responded to identity politics (central theme in academia during 1994) Soon after riots and social disorder in la (after king trial) Segregation environmental, socioeconomic, racial resulted in. Race: a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies. The very notion of race emerges out of a historical context, colonialism, it"s a means of contesting other things (social conflicts, different groups get classified in racial terms) Different phenotypes: why are we dividing upon different skin tones?--> important historical reasons for this.