ANTHRARC 282 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mulatto, Avenue Q, Color Terminology For Race
15 Apr 2016
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Colour line about race and religion: poliical cartoon with muslim woman at trump rally. Verical juxtaposiion of white vs non-white (one on top of the other; white on top of non-white); oten not horizontal. Acions verbs what makes race an acion, not a noun: sort soring mechanism of race. Outside similariies lead to presumpions of inside similariies. Race phenotype = the way we look at the outside of our bodies which results in acions (soring, associaing, classifying, unifying) that place our bodies into a hierarchy. Part of the acion of race is oten to reduce the complexity of our ideniies to just one thing. How race is done (figure i. 2 from doing race p. 18: ex: star (yellow) people. The way we interact with yellow people in a social context. Even though individualism is celebrated in the us, no one individual in society has the power to idenify who they are; idenity is formed and created by interacions with others.
