Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Racialization, Caveman, Congenital Disorder
8 Mar 2013
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Born in the world outside of the world. Belief that we exist outside of all power, discourses and such. History, culture, and identity have all predated us. These cultural practices are important: i don"t act like a dude because i am a man, i act like a man because it is culturally intelligible to do these things. Liberal feminism: individual iniative, rational discussion, new laws. Formal colonialism has ended but there its influences still exist. How race became a category of exclusion. The savage" within that needed to be repressed and disciplined. He categorized monsters into two categories: there were mythological monsters ie. centaurs and shit, then there were people who had birth defects. What did it mean spiritually to have a birth defect. Only people who had regular human forms were rational: so people with birth defects who didn"t look fully human were not rational.
