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Part II: Colonizing the Body
This part of the course analyzes how the œcivilizing mission of the New Imperialism of the 19th and 20th centuries translated in into attempts to classify, cleanse, and control the bodies of colonial subjects. The readings cover issues related to scientific racism, medicine and disease, and sexuality. As you read, you should be thinking about how theories and beliefs about racial hierarchies underpinned the colonial project.
Readings:
œThe Imperial Mission (Conklin and Fletcher), œThe White Man’s Burden (Rudyard Kipling), and œThe Machine as Civilizer (Michael Adas), in European Imperialism: 1830-1930, edited by Alice Conklin and Ian Christopher Fletcher (Boston, MA: Wadsworth, 1999).
Fae Brauer, œThe Transparent Body
David Arnold, œTouching the Body
Warwick Anderson, œExcremental Colonialism
Ann Laura Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power, chs. 2 and 3
Answer the following question in the form of one 1,000 word (3-4 pages) essay.
To what extent did social and cultural policies implemented by the colonial powers (in the areas covered by the readings) serve to establish and maintain the colonizer/colonized hierarchy?
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