HISTORY 197 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Olaudah Equiano, Phenotype
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1790 naturalization act > citizenship = free white property-owning men. We are never white, black, native american, etc. people . > we become _____ people through social interactions . > hierarchy of power created with transatlantic slave trade. > colour lines separating categories of people > colour line created to impede human across categories of difference and always people defying its logic. Bringing together primary actions of race > reading human difference by taking phenotypical readings and associating with certain characteristics to give different values > sorting, assigning, Whiteness associated with freedom > granted or denied rights and privileges . Story about eagle and eggs that lina gave to florens in cold cabin. Traveler = representative of someone in power (ie. explorer) Looks at beauty of the world and says mine three times. Throws rock at eagle > don"t know what becomes of eagle > eggs left to fend for self.
