Woolergate Flashcards

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Orientalism

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  • Refers to views of east by west
  • more how the west refers to the rest
  • framed as a us vs them binary
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This binary is loaded with value

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-we are superior to them
-they are backward and quaint
- they are exotic or alien
binary also construct as an orient, obscuring the great cultural diversity

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Pakistans team 3 themes

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theme 1. Irrationality:
- bizarre place
-place full of vagaries
- always full of turmoil
-lawless
theme 2. barbarism and violence 
-wolmers house was stoned and house burned
-attacks on players feared
-mobs expected 
Theme 3. Static and unchanging:
-poisoned by primitive poison, linking the east to middle ages as though it hasn't changed
- snake venom suggested. constructed exotic and ancient
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Intersectionality

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  • ways in which institutions of oppression overlap and cannot be examined separately
  • discrimmination operates differently on different people with different consequences
  • wat sint discrimination for someone is for another
  • this worked against harris in that her argument was she was racially/sexuallity discriminated against had no place in media and legal frameworks
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Viewed Racism employs common term s that seem unconnected to racism

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  • democracy
  • freedom
  • choice
  • culture

Instead of talking about race people now talk about culture differences. democracy is used to show how everything is equal and that we have freedom of choice.

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