HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Carol Hanisch, Michel Foucault, White Supremacy
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Pocahontas how in the world can she run with that body shape . Represents what is going on with colonizing north america. Did not just provide information but created information. Telling people how to get to other parts of the world (across the atlantic) The maps that we colored in eighth grade taught us a version of conquest and colonization. Colonized america was already populated well before europeans arrived. People on the side have the same skin tone and same clothing -- those who created the maps had never seen those who inhabited africa. Animals on the map -- and there are sea monsters everywhere too. Places that the europeans who made the map had not charted. Boundaries of nation states are of a european fashion. About creating a system of white supremacy and establishing hierarchies. We use identity as race very often.
