HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Michel Foucault
Document Summary
Introducing colonialism, race, and sex: colonialism, race and racism (and racecraft, history of sex. Colonialism: where and when: pocahontas in the disney movie as a symbol of fertile america, her mature body as compared to the real 11-year-old pocahontas who was married to. 27-year-old john smith: pilgrims, while they escape britain to seek religious freedom, they execute anyone who is not. Puritan: not so much religious freedom there, maps, european view of africa, 1644, sea monsters on early modern maps represent an area that no one knows about; implying danger. Race and racism (and racecraft: race is not, biologic, objective, trans-historic different societies, different time periods view the meaning of race differently. Just about africans/black people/non-white people race is about power system (cid:862)race is an ideology(cid:863) historian barbara fields. Ideology = a way of thinking: historians define ideology as a system of economy and politics that has to do with power, race is a way used to create power hierarchy.
