SY389 Lecture Notes - Sander Gilman, Victorian Era, Missionary Position
Document Summary
Be prepared to explain how whiteness is racialized and normalized to be a centre of power and privilege. Part i: colonizing bodies: discourses of white superiority. Part ii: whiteness as a practice of power. Part iii: hip hop culture: conversations from the margins. A method of categorizing and classifying people according to narrow cultural standards. Examples of gender stereotypes: pink for girls (femininity, soft, weak, barbies, princesses, men are better drivers than women (they are less emotional, assumed to have better hand-eye coordination, toys r us shows gender stereotypes. Examples of race stereotypes: all asians are smart, good at math and engineering. Means of producing an artificial sense of difference between self" and other". Shaped social relations between european colonizers and non-europeans. European explorers and colonizers label themselves as the standard for humanity: different, morally superior, civilized versus non-europeans as inferior, deficient, uncivilized barbarians.
