GE CLST 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Biopower, Heteronormativity, Michel Foucault

• School: UCLA
• Department: General Education Clusters
• Course: GE CLST 20A
• Professor: Ortiz Vilma

Document Summary

Unseen tears the native american boarding (residential) school experience in western new. Braiding corn: the three sisters, symbolizing bonding through generations and life. Racial uplift through importing white heteronormativity (normalizing heterosexual ideals) Art by avis charley come hither depicts a courting scene. A lot of women became matrons because they could escape the hetero negativity in the domestic setting. Foucault argues biopower: technology which appeared in late 18th century for managing populations. It incorporates certain aspects of disciplinary power. If disciplinary power is about training the actions of bodies, biopower is about managing the births, deaths, reproduction, and illnesses of a population. Preston mcbride (ucla student), rate of native students of carlisle were far higher than previously estimated and deliberately whitewashed be the school"s found. Has higher death rate in census years than almost every state than indian nation. Carlisle had a higher death rate than war zones.