SOSC 1700 Lecture Notes - Histology, Racialization, First Nations
23 May 2014
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Feminist histography and the multiplicity of first nations women"s gender roles. Greco-roman aesthetic came together to justify the categorization of people of color as. 3 ugly, culturally deficient and intellectually inferior: cornell west calls this production the normative gaze which has been used to measure and assess everyone else as the racial other". Japanese and filipino americans: similar laws existed in canada up until the 1800s. In an effort to understand and resist racism there has been a tendency in some literature to rarefy race and racial difference. Essentialism describes the explanation of a social phenomenon as natural biological or innate (gleason et al 398). White/colour dichotomy is the basis of race essentialism and oversimplifies the sources of oppression for people of colour: however, we need to problematize such essensialist thinking. First, as stasiulis points out, all whites are constructed as oppressor, regardless of the heterogeneity among white people and colour in class and ethnicity (stasiulus 35).
