Anthro 205 1st Edition Lecture 15 Outline of Last Lecture I Documentary on Harvey Milk Outline of Current Lecture I Dr Chavez evaluation of immigration power and representation II Discourse III Hegemony IV Common Sense Current Lecture Power Discourse and Representation Dr Leo Chavez Prof Of Anthropology at the University of California at Irvine Not an ethnograpy He is steping back to see the way Latinos and immigrants are being represented in the U S How Latinos are always seen as a threat Interested in the power of representation in the meaning of citizenship Latinos aren t like other immigrants o They don t learn english intermarry or mix in any way with the native population All these accusations are common to past immigrants and are NOT true and not based on substantial evidence Immigrants as a threat to the nation o not thinking of immigrants as people searching for a better life o Boarders are becoming deadlier and deadlier even though it is necessary for economical reasons Interpretation o Media shapes the way we view immigration How a way of seeing the world immigration as a bad thing becomes common sense These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Discourse Foucault A formation of ideas images and practices that construct knowledge of ways of talking about and forms of conduct associated with a particular topic social activity or institutional site in society What is true about a topic is found in discourse Not a conversation a group of statements systematic truth taken for granted Discourse sets a parameter Fear of porous boarders Repetitiveness is a building block of discourse Knowledge Power These 2 ideas are always linked Foucault What is considered knowledge is always backed by power Hegemony Power is exercised in ways beyond coercion Hegemony The system of values attitudes morality and other beliefs that passively or actively support the established order and thus the class interests that dominate it Common sense The largely unconscious and uncritical way of perceiving the world that is widespread in any given historical epoch The way that we consent to being governed without coercion