HIST 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Stout, Racial Hygiene, Otto Von Bismarck
Class note 16
Orientalism
is the framework that we use to understand the unfamiliar and the strange.
Process of stereotyping
Disparity between experience and representation
Repertory of Orientalism
Value:
Offers insights about colonialism from the perspective of one who has been
colonized.
Imperial civilizing mission
European imperialism/colonialism by trying to impose their ideals. The European
colonial powers felt it was their duty to bring Western civilization to supposedly
backwards peoples. Rather than merely govern colonial peoples, the Europeans
would attempt to Westernize them in accordance with a colonial ideology known
as "assimilation"
mass consumption
Mass consumption began to enforce uniformity. The identity of one American
became much more similar to the identities of every other American as everyone
purchased uniform goods. This ideology led to mass production
commodity racism
Its commercial products often advocated white supremacy and endorsed imperial
expansion. Soap, first sold in Britain in 1884, became one of such products that
signified the 'cleanliness' of white civilization. The famous Pears soap
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