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What did Stuart Hall say in his lecture in 1996?
that race is a 'floating signifier' race is language rather than biologically formed, skin colour is the signifier in culture
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What did Linnaeus do in 1758?
class humans into Homo-European, American, Asiastic, African
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What did Morton do in his book 'Types of Mankind' in 1854
'blacks have smaller brains'
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What did the Origin of the Species do?
1859, justified human categories even though Darwin was anti-slavery
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What did Hernstein and Murray conclude in 'The Bell Curve'?
1994, that blacks have lower IQs
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When was slavery abolished?
1807 in UK, 1864 in US
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What was the 'white man's burden'?
superior whites' duty to help under-developed countries bringing christianity
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What did Hegel say in 'Phenomenology of the Spirit' in 1807?
gain self-consciousness by engaging with an 'other' recognising them as different, gives identity through the 'other' set-off dialectic where both consciousness are engaged
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What did Fanon say in 'Black Skis, White Masks' in 1967?
against Hegel's view that master and slave are in conflict, master decides what he wants from the slave, only there for work, white masks in order to get by in a white world
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What did Fanon say in 'The Wretched of the Earth' in 1961?
defending the right for people to use violence to get independence, censored by French gov, how blacks encounter the trauma of being categorised
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What did Fanon say in 'TWOTE' in 1961?
'it is the racist who creates his inferior'
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What did Du Bois say in 'The Souls of Black' in 1903?
conclusion that racism could only be solved through protests, double consciousness
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What demolished in 1909 and what was founded?
Niagara movement- joining of people from African movement, NAACP
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What was pan-africanism?
1900, people of african descent should work together, fighting against the economic discrimination
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What did Washington believe in?
Urged blacks to accept discrimination and eventually whites will accept them
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When did the Civil Rights and the Voting Rights Act get passed?
1964, 65
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What was the Harlem Resistance?
Group of black artists who distinguished themselves as black
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What did Said say in 'Orientalism' 1978?
how the west study eastern cultures, constructed through the lens of Europe, coming into contact with lesser-developed countries, two systems that 'support and to an extent reflect each other'
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What did it say in 'Orientalism'?
'European culture gained in strength and identity by setting itself off' against the Orient
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How is orientalism relevant today?
present in relationship with Islam after 9/11
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What did Foucault believe in?
discourse theory focusing on power relationships expressed through language, how society is shaped through language
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What did Levinas believe in?
'Other' processes which society exclude those who don't fit in with each other, construct roles for thsemelves, justifying the exploitation of inferior 'other'
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What did Derrida believe in?
understanding 'other' as binary oppositions, never speak one language, always speak one language
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What did Spivak say about essentialism?
dangers of subaltern voices might over simplify their cultural identity, creating stereotypes
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What did Bhabha mean by mimicry?
the coloniser requires the other to normalise itself, repeating the coloniser's behaviour
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What did Bhabha mean by Hybridity?
open up to a nation of international culture exploring the 'Third Space'
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What did Gilroy say in 'Modernity and Double Consciousness' in 1993?
new diaspora, black alantic trying to be black and european, originally based on source of origin
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What did Bakare say in 'A Journey in from the Cold' in 2000?
'any people globally dispersed or scattered, gained particular significance to the ethnic or national identities'
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What is intersectionality?
race intersecting with other groups, i.e. gender
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What did Cuvier do in 1805?
divided humans in yellow, black and white
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What does deconstruction mean?
identifying the binary oppositions and exploring how and why values have historically came to be associated with black people
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What was primitivism?
'child-like' western idea of art from other cultures, linked to bourgeoisie culture, linked to fetishism
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When was 'A Raisin in the Sun' publilshed?
1959
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When was 'Why I don't hate White People' published?
2009
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