People MCD
Anthony Giddens Self-identity & social identity
Stuart Hall People have various identities, not organized around a coherent self,
we construct a narrative about the ‘self’ + politics of representation +
trans-coding strategies: reversing, posi/nega, through the eye of
representation + Ethnicity can be valuable, importance of identity
Gayatri Chakravorty Identity politics, strategic essentialism, shared identity from minority
Spivak groups to demand rights
Barker Identity politics: new languages of identity + Context-specific regimes of
black representation
Williams Culture: exploring how people made sense of the world
Walter Lippmann Stereotyping: Cognitive structures & means for social categorization,
economy
Richard Dyer Revisits Lippmann: agrees with economy, short cuts but lacking in
depth, does not address persons/ institutions who in engage in
stereotyping sufficiently + White (1997): Whiteness is human norm, not
considered racial
Kimberle Crenshaw Intersectionality bv. Black women, 2 live crew etc.
Judith Butler Poststructuralist feminism, performativity
Raewynn Connell Gender theory, hegemonic masculinity, emphasized femininity
normative but not hegemonic
Susan Stryker Transgenders, only respect for ‘’succesfull’’ trans persons,
representation
Nora Monsecour Person film ‘’girl” is based on
Betty Friedan Radical feminism, representing woman as suburban housemother
Gaye Tuchman Liberal feminism, mass media annihilate women, omission trivalization
& condemnation
Sara de Vuyst en Karin Gender disparities in the newsroom
Raeymaeckers
Andrea Dworkin Radical/ lesbian feminism
John Boswell Essentialist gay & lesbian studies, innate
Jeffrey Weeks Social constructionist approaches gay & lesbians, wider regulation,
physical aspects similar but social implications differ
Richard von kraft-ebing Sex as pleasure, but only hetero (late 19th century)
Magnus Hirschfeld First movement against gaycriminalization
Alfred Kinsey Female pleasure, acknowledge gay identity, sexuality as continuum
(1950s)
Michael Warner Heteronormativity part of status quo
Alexander Doty Films challenge heteronormativity even though it was rarely intended
to do so, queer reading
Erving Goffman Impression management
Charlotte Adigéry Music, diasporic background
Paul Gilroy On black diaspora, racism & ethnicity
Bell Hooks Race instead of ethnicity + creation of victims bv black men who fail to
embody the sexual norms etc.
Benedict Anderson Imagined communities
Peggy Mcintosh White privilege, advantages considered normal bv easy renting
anapartment
Edward Saïd Orientalism