ARTSSCI 1C06 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Gabriel García Márquez, Rachel Dolezal, Frantz Fanon
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Constructed difference as cause, manifestation, and/or justification of injustice: subjugation & oppression, inequity, conflict, human rights violations, genocide. Emphasizing real or imaginary differences (and de-emphasizing similarities) Generalizing & essentializing the difference: gets drawn out, defines an individual. Difference as: natural, supported by science, empirical, supported by observation, divine, supported by religion. Frantz fanon (1925-1961), the fact of blackness : look, a negro! Austin performative utterances (speech acts that accomplish rather than describe/report. Judith butler gender as performative (thus denaturalized); shaped by prevailing discourses: how we act that conforms/differs from a social script of gender. Extended to other axes of identity (re)producing difference. Mechanisms for (re)producing difference: government, law, military ( repressive state apparatuses ) Using their dominant influences to police ways of being: media, school, family, church ( ideological state apparatuses , everyday interaction. Celebrating difference as a positive aspect of society.
