Fetishism

“What if America loved Black people as much as Black Culture?” ("‘Hunger Games’ Star’s Stunning Critique: What If America Loved Black People as Much as Black Culture?", 2015). Hunger Games star, Amandla Stenberg, issued a video titled, “Don’t Cash Crop on my Cornrows”, which addressed the cultural appropriation behind historical hairstyles such as braids and dreadlocks. The video continues to criticize celebrities “for not acknowledging the appropriation of black culture” (“African Student Union…

When a man is engaging or in a relationship with a woman it can be said to be acting in the manner in which he is because he is thinking with his penis, but what must be noted is that the penis, used as a tool or status symbol, is a material condition that has little meaning itself and is only given meaning and power when supported by ones ideologies. Ideologies, which are overvalued, that are project onto the world from ones perspective does not guarantee that that will be the way in which the…

Marxism believed that our society was in a state of continual conflict between the working class and upper class, this essay will assess the Marxist approach on social class a theory stemmed from the works of Karl Marx, that believes our society to be in a state of constant struggle between the ruling class (bourgeoisie) and the working class (proletariat). Within society, according to social stratification people are placed in particular divisions based on a system of hierarchy. This has…

Kenny Pineda Theory 1 Final Due: July 7, 2015 Two Question Prompt Final Answer to question #3 Max Weber’s work reflects the time period in which he lived in; he wrote in times of revolution. Weber saw that Capitalism was replacing small towns with large cities and vast companies were taking over the economy. There was also a transition of power from long standing aristocracies to Elites in his time. The prominent idea that Max Weber laid out as a foundation for capitalism was people’s…

As McCarthy Brown (2003) noted, healers “rarely try to compete with scientific medicine” (p.285). In fact, more often the practitioner, once he has appeased the problem with the supernatural, advises the client to consult Western biomedicine to repair the remaining damage from the Vodou spirits former wrath (Freeman, 2007, p.125). In this view Vodou is essentially enlisted to combat the cause and biomedicine to combat the symptoms. Although, as Freeman (2007) notes “in practice, real…