NEW240Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Emmett Till, White Supremacy, Ethnography
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Emmett till: emett till was a 14 year old african american boy who was accused and punished for flirting with a white women. He was murdered by a group the white husband along with other white racist individuals. The body was horrifically tortured, his mother display his corpse for four days. As stan mention in lecture, racialized bodies are seen as dirty, criminal and sick due to the colonial history and the development of the other . This is relevant to equity studies because the body of the 14 year old boy represents the existing racialization and the burden the social group carries due to their physical differences that contributes to the racial imaginary. Regimes of disappearance: the term regime of disappearance is defined by culhane , a neoliberal mode of governance that selectively marginalizes and or erases categories of people through strategies of representation (culhane)
