ANT204H1 Study Guide - Toplessness
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Race is dangerous because it tends to be a type of classification. Racial and cultural differences become coded ways of talking about other. Race is not directly addressed; images portray the other . Henry gates differences that matter/differences in power and interests. Blacker one was, the more laborious his job was. Blackness of their skin. superior position to black people. After the civil rights movement, the white person was removed from the photograph, symbolizing the offensiveness of portraying the black people as labourers and the white people as superiors. (black people continued to be portrayed as labourers). Individuals coded as black were more likely to be shown in high levels of activity, strenuous work, or athletics, while white were engaged in low level activity, seated, reclining, manipulating things with their hands (no hard labour). Those coded bronze were doing things in between that (walking, herding animals).
