Hum 101W Lecture Notes
Hum 101W Lecture Notes
Intro ppt:
Vs.
Discussion—folk art/culture
Fok culture are cultural traditions that are done at a local level and derived from longstanding
cultural practices. It’s separated from popular and high culture by its traditional and localized
nature (Tibetan Buddhism, Hinduism)
Week 5 Who are We? Nation, ethnicity, race, gender & sexuality
We as Nation
o From empire to nation (nationalism)
o Mass schooling
o National standing armies
The birth of a the Nation
o Notion of the folk or people
o Print capitalism
o Industrialization
Nation as socially/culturally constructed
o Imagined community
o Imagined & real: oscillating between national identities
o People invest in the existence of their nation (patriotism) –reinforced through
everyday settings eg. The news
Nation & its others
o Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine
o Minorities
o Otherothers –sexuality, gender, identity
Race has no bio/genetic/scientific basis, but racial identity is very real
o Implicated in establishing & justifying systems of power, privilege, & oppression
o Racial identity is externally imposed: how do others perceive me, how do I
identify myself?
Race constructed from outside through
o Individual racism: believing in superiority of a group
o Interpersonal racism: public expressions of racism (slurs)
o Institutional racism: policies & practices that give unfair advantages to certain
groups
o Structural racism: racial bias across institutions (stereotyping POC as criminals in
mainstream media)
Gender & culture
o Social construction of gender
o Fixed gender roles: barbie, Disney princesses
o Binary gender & sexuality system
o Rights and legislation
o Workplace roles
o Stereotyping masculinity & femininity through culture
Intersections between gender, sexuality, nation, race
o Femonationalism
o Nazi Germany prisoner classification chart
o There was a broad range of gender + erotic diversity in First Nations communities
before European contact
o Racist, patriarchal and heterosexist knowledges used to regulate those preferring
same-sex intimacies
o Construction of shame, abnormality, degeneracy
Concluding
o Culture crucial in the social construction of categories such as nation, race, gender
and sexuality
o Mobilizing difference & establishing inequalities