WGS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: World History, Racialization
21 Jun 2019
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Race and abilities need to be considered together (not . Expanding on idea of inter-connectedness of differences: Idea of the nation as one of differentiation, working with sexual regimes and racialization. A "nation" is a collection of people who have come to believe that they have been shaped by a common past and are destined to share a common future. (enloe p. 44) Creates boundries - is exclusive (not all will share) them . Nationalism, by definition, is a set of ideas that sharpens distinctions between "us" and. It is, moreover, a tool for explaining how inequities have been created between "us" and "them". (enloe p. 44) Not only physical borders, ideologies, imagined communities . Learn in school (u. s. history vs world history, language) Sovereign political unit that shares an imagined sense of us and exists within set geographical borders. 18th century or so is beginning to . Circumstances that informed the founding of u. s. nation.
