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Q 1:
How is the racism against AfroAmericans or the other minorities (e.g. Chinese, Foreign Laborers here) related to colonialism?
Racism =
Individual (inverse racism) Institutional, Linguistic/ cultural, Physical.
Colonialism =
Economic, Military, Cultural.
Starting Questions 2
What are the examples of colonialism? Is KMTs regime an example? What are the examples of colonial thinking (e.g. the racial/cultural prejudices and stereotypes) in English culture and literature? Is de-colonization possible? How do we or the colonized resist colonialism in life and through literature?
Outline
Colonialisms Definition Cultural Imperialism & Orientalism: Theories & Examples Racism & Cultural Containment and Appropriation Summary
Reference
internal colonialism
1. Racial Domination within an existing territory 2. Uneven wave of industrialization Inter-group differences in power Ethnic division of labor Ethnic identities are forged and ethnic colonies formed (ghettos, or internal segregation). Related to minority discourse or
immigrant culture/literature.
Triangular Trade
2. Middle Passage
Flows of Migrants
1st World Colonial powers: Adventurers, Army, travelers, missionaries, immigrants Third World:
Slaves, Contract laborers, Students, businessmen, etc.
1. Culture (e.g. literature, language, popular culture) supports imperialism and is one way to spread it. 2. The definition of the self and others are based upon representations rather than reality; 3. A series of binary oppositions (exact opposites) were employed to at once define the colonized subjects and the colonizing masters.
Decoration and support for building the Empire (e.g. Mansfield Park); Biological Differences: Justification of Racism
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Examining scholarly works, works of literature, political tracks, journalistic texts, travel books, religious and philosophical studies (Said 23) As a discourseconstructing knowledge and within power networks; Eurocentric (even in some more sympathetic writings); East vs. West e.g. Orientalism presenting the East as the Other (weaker, less civilized, inscrutable, wicked), or as the exotic e.g. Arabian Nights, Madame Butterfly and all the images of Oriental women as sumissive, sexual and sweet.
"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look at it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it: not a sentimental pretence but an idea; an unselfish belief in the idea something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer sacrifice to (Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness)
3. Rape and Rescue Fantasy virginal white women, or black women sometimes, rescued from black men.
The Tempest Caliban Robinson Crusoe Friday Jane Eyre the madwoman Bertha Mansfield Park dependant on the business from the West Indian Estate (in Antigua; clip) And many other Victorian novels.as decoration or evil margins.
Aussies: Are extremely patriotic to their beer. Americans: Are flag-waving, anthem-singing, and obsessively patriotic to the point of blindness. Canadians: Can't agree on the words to their anthem, when they can be bothered to sing them. Brits: Do not sing at all but prefer a large brass band to perform the anthem.
Languages
British Accent: sounds aristocratic and thus elegant; American Accent: sounds democratic and open-minded; Black Accent: sounds streetwise and .
When you have problems working with a person of another race (e.g. Japanese or Indian), you then assume that all the Indians/Japanese are like this.
(or model minority) using, for instance, Asians as model monorities against Blacks or the Aborigines. cultural containment
Cultural Containment
Roots criticizes the individuals but not the system. Cosby Show an image of success.
Cultural Appropriation:
A subtler and more complicated form of racial inequality e.g. The use of black cultures
Madonnas use of vogue dance (as opposed to Janet Jacksons If) Jazz, Blues, Rap . . . etc.
1. pro-indigenous
2. Respecting their language & cultures (e.g. costume) 3. Changes the direction of the industry
of Colonialisms Cultural Colonialism (Orientalism & Cultural Imperialism): Theories & Examples Racism: Theories and Examples
Race: Definition
Are racial attributes (e.g. what being a Chinese means) naturally born, or socially acquired? now widely regarded as arbitrary from a biological viewpoint because actual genetic differences between racial groups are trivial.
new racism
involves the belief that the races are
inherently different from one another in a cultural and behavioural sense, and problems result when they try to live together.
Reference
Ella Shohat, Robert Stam. Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media by Routledge; 1994.