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| generalizations meant to predict behavior (meant to rationalize inequality) |
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| the burden of representation |
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| burden placed on an individual to speak for everyone "like them" |
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| politics of representation |
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| many times limited access that minorities have to represent their culture |
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| the idea that what makes us a nation is not geographical boundaries but the culture and morals that hold us together; this should lead to institutions that affirm students/workers' cultural experience rather than disrespecting it |
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| the idea that there are certain things we all share and think are right morally; we should focus on that instead of divisive issues |
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| the idea that some unseen force dictates the unavoidableness of racial categories; people are intrinsically different |
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| common way of thinking: essence stable in every person; Winant thinks: a complex of social meanings pertaining to a group which are constantly transformed by political struggle |
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| the idea that race isn't automatic; we must apply language to classify relationships or groups as owing their existence to racial categories |
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| the idea that social, political and economic categories determine racial meanings and how they are in turn shaped by racial meanings |
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| forced dispersal (moving from an original homeland to different parts of the world) many times involuntary because of economic circumstances, safety, etc. |
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| looking back to one's place of origin for a sense of self |
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| reappear in every society and help tell a story: universally relevant and neutral |
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| puts pressure on the real in order to expand it; used to literalize metaphors |
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| prejudice, stereotyping or discrimination typically against women on the basis of sex |
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| formal experimentation with theatre; challenges the assumptions of a "well made" play; theme: the relationship between form and content sometimes needs to be presented differently to uphold the meaning intended by the playwright |
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| the idea that representation is gendered; women have been represented as the passive ones in a relationship: they are the ones to be looked at; spectatorship is the position of power |
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| race or gender is defined at the intersection of how one performs these categories and how the people interacting with that person interpret these categories |
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| the idea that there is a hierarchy of culture: the west is masculine and is associated with authority; the east is feminine and thus acted upon by the west (because it is more old fashioned) |
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| trying to undo the premises of race that structure a play |
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| saying something that becomes true after you say it |
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| the belief that social identity categories are expressed through one another |
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| the idea that a group cannot be assimilated into the larger social network that surrounds it |
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| transformations in geopolitics produced by transformations in economies, info systems and political affiliation; the way we allow ourselves to be placed in relationship to power |
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| the idea that America has only one culture; enforced process; we all should compartmentalize our differences and conform to being American (favoring European descent) |
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| the idea acknowledging that America is host to many cultures and we should affirm and celebrate differences, educating youth in all cultures |
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| the idea that there aren't universal standards of excellence, morality, etc; cultural practices should be evaluated relative to the cultures in which they're produced or else something will be missing from the meaning |
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| 1. when directors feel obligated to cast minorities, fulfilling a quota rather than finding talent; 2. pressure that artists feel under the burden of representation- expectaion that they will diversify the sphere where they work |
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| mutually beneficial relationships between groups; this takes on multiculturalism specifically |
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| a system where the free market is controlled by private owners for profit; one's place in the hierarchy is determined by effort |
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| the idea that history is a series of class struggles between the people that produce and the people that control the means of production |
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| when rich people buy cheap houses in old neighborhoods and fix them up, bringing upscale stores and people: conflict between the past and future |
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| the idea that the nation is a community based on shared political institutions with membership available to all who reside within its territory |
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| the idea that a nation is a community based on ethnic and linguistic heritage |
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