SO 101 Lecture 3: SOC101- Race and Colonialism
SOC101
Race in Global Perspective
• Black Skin and White Masks
• Research on the psychology of the colonized
• Foundational work for post colonial theory
• Key text for the Black Panther Party
• Psychologist for French soldiers, Algerian political prisoners, and others
traumatized by the war
Colonialism
• Practice of domination which involves subjugnation of one people to another
• Transfer of population to a new territory
• Imperialism: act of one country excersising power over another
• Colonialism: Puerto Rico, Tibet, Palestine
• Imperialism: US in Iraq/Afghanistan, and China
Conciousness and Alienation
• Mimicking society makes you less human
• Empathsises racial and binary differences
• Alienation is psychological
• Alienation of black people comes from colonization
• European culture is dominate
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