COMM 206 Chapter Who We Be Intro Ch 1-2: Who We Be Intro Chapter 1-2 Notes
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It(cid:859)s a (cid:448)isual p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373) (cid:894)(cid:448)isio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:448)isualit(cid:455)(cid:895) race happens in the gap between appearance and the perception of difference (2) Natural for humans to recognize difference, but: historically, whites saw skin tone and physiognomy not only as difference, but as signals of superiority and inferiority. Post-civil rights movement: seeing became important: visuality of race (with its history of erasure and debasement) became important because people of color refused to remain invisible. 1970s: artists focused on recognition of identity: argued that america had always been multicultural (4) Cultural change = wave: paradox single event but also process of motions, all preceding final event. Asserts that cultural change precedes political change (5) Social schism between the old/new; between black and white/color (10) Problem of racial innocence: we dis(cid:272)uss (cid:396)a(cid:272)e as if it(cid:859)s (cid:374)e(cid:449), as if (cid:449)e(cid:859)(cid:448)e li(cid:448)ed a(cid:374)d lea(cid:396)(cid:374)ed (cid:374)othi(cid:374)g (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1005)(cid:895) We ignore that race and identify rely on the past and future.
