ETH STD 11AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Double Consciousness, Defamiliarization, Model Minority
18 Nov 2020
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Personal stories & personal agency become a strong resident theme in minority/multicultural studies. Unified idea of what it means to be american. Born into kind of social contract -- uphold ideals & live according to law. Taking what"s familiar & replacing it into an unfamiliar context in order to reconstruct nature. Dubois" notion of double consciousness (always being seen before you"re seen) - perceptual concept of always being seen through the eyes of others. Contains memories of ways it has been treated. The power of culture lays out contradictions between culture & legislation. What remains is the residue of legislation which is expressed through culture. Racial slur just stuns & immobilizes you. What culture remembers when your body is seen. Murphy"s law of those situations -- you never see them coming & are never ready for them. Events that crystalize events of community to bring into existence.
