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How do we "do" race?
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Individually and institutionally. We do it every time we reduce a person to an essential, unchanging characteristic that supposedly emanates from their biology.
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What is important about naming and labelling?
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The right to name ourselves is basic to our identity.
Labeling others is an issue of power and control – and deprives people of their basic right to define themselves. |
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What was Edward Said's theory?
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Orientalism.
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What is Orientalism?
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A ‘knowledge’ of the East and a body of ‘power-knowledge’ relations articulated in the interests of the ‘power’ of the West - a system of ideological fiction.
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What is the "binary" of Orientalism?
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“the West is rational, developed, human, superior; (in contrast) the Orient is aberrant, undeveloped, inferior.”
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What are the two Imperial plot structures commonly found in Pop Culture?
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1. Stories that tell of white colonizers succumbing and ‘going native’;
2. Stories that tell of white colonizers imposing themselves on the alien environment. |
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Why is the Hollywood version of the Vietnam War not like the real war?
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Hollywood constructs Vietnam; produces some ‘reality’ of that event through its constructed narrative
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What does power produce?
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Power produces reality; it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth.
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