AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Connotation, Meritocracy, Raymond Williams
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1852: first group of 195 chinese contract laborers brought to hawaii to work sugar plantations. 1865 - 69: chinese labor / transcontinental railroad. Space defined by how far people travel across us, railroad cuts down the space. Completion of railroad beginning of the end: anti-chinese movement to expel them for economic and racial reasons. Kai suck, untitled (portrait of a young man) ca. Rough on rats it clears out rats mice bed bugs 15cent per box picture of chinese man eating a rat. 3 general definitions: high art, a way of life, occasion for creating meaning - a text. General process of intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic development . A peculiar way of life, whether of a people, a period, or a group . Anthropological sense, sense of practices engaged in - holiday, sports, food. Meritocracy to become a pro, different positions, form whole. Works and practices of intellectual and especially artistic activity .
