Category Archives for Haney López
Cultural studies
I really enjoyed this week’s reading I think that like gender and feminist studies and theory ethnic literary and cultural studies really talk about current and important issues. One of the things that stood out to me was a quote by Haney Lopez, which stated “Race may be American’s single most confounding problem, but the […]
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A sad history of racism
In the text “The Social Construction of Race”, by Ian F. Haney López, I think there are some important statements that deconstruct the social (or hegemonic, in terms of Gramsci, we might say) common ideas about “race”. For instance, he … Continue reading → Continue reading
So ….What is race?
This is the question of the week. We often hear that term, but do we really know what it entails? “Race” is one of these words that make me uncomfortable. I don’t understand it, I don’t know what people mean when they use “it” and I am even more lost when somebody ask me about […]
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