Cultural Sociology: Week 4 Readings (Hall, Naomi Osaka)

Procter's "The Real Me", Hall's "New Ethnicities", Razack & Joseph's "Misogynoir in women’s sport media".

The First Moment - Identity Politics

• Realist

• Essentialism

• Unity over Hegemony

• Lack of nuance

The Second Moment - Politics of Identity

• Post-Modern

• Ethnicity

• Nuanced perspectives of various members of the community

• Diversity and standpoint theory

• Response to Thatcherism

New Ethnicity

• Ethnicity based on culture, background, and history

• Not exactly biological, tangible. More intangible.

Difference

• Recognition of the many within the one

• Rejection of binary opposition

• Differences as a part of the group, not us vs them

Self-Reflexive

• Internalizing stnadpoint theory and reflect on our constantly moving positions

• We are not objective observers

• Johari window

Contingent

• A sense of dependency on other events/contexts

• Our political positions can change/fluid with context, time, space

Diaspora Aesthetics

the media manifestations of discourse created by diasporic groups, which often highlight the experience of hybridity, cross-over, and difference.

Diaspora

emphasis on movement and migration; large global migrations of different ethnic groups around the world, travelling concepts.

Encoding/Decoding

A communications theory from Hall that discusses the power relations of encoding and decoding messages from producers to audiences.

Misogynoir

What happens to Black women in public space isn’t about them being any woman of color. It is particular and has to do with the ways that anti-Blackness and misogyny combine to malign Black women in our world.

Colorism

Prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group.