WGST 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter Critical Terrain Readings, pages 228-230: Fetishism, Stereotype
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Movements begin when people refuse to live divided lives. How does a racialized regime of representation actually work: representational practices known as stereotyping, stereotyping reduces people to a few, simple, essential characteristics, which are represented as fixed by nature. Four aspects of stereotyping: the construction of otherness and exclusion, stereotyping and power, the role of fantasy, fetishism. Types are needed to make sense of the world. Understand in terms of type and the particular. Typing is essential to the production of meaning. A type is any simple, vivid, memorable, easily grasped and widely recognized (page 229) characterization in which a few traits are foregrounded and change or development" is kept to a minimum. We come to know something about a person by thinking of the roles which he/she per- forms. We assign him/her to the membership of different groups according to class, gender, age, nationality, race, etc.