SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Internalized Racism, Ethnocentrism, Albert Memmi
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Many research tools were political in nature. The reason for colonialism was disguised as because natives didn"t have souls and thus we must give them what they lack. Many tools to develop knowledge about the world have been used against colonized peoples to explain or rationalize the intent, purpose, and end goals of imperialism. The denial of humanity itself was a huge colonization process. Removing people from their land, families, histories, and the basic conceptualization of them as human beings. People have been and continue to be affected in by imperialism: imperialism still hurts, still destroys and reforming itself constantly content. Writing about this has become an important endeavor for. This has included rewriting and deconstructing many of the racist and dehumanizing ideas built into the discourse, practices, and policies regarding indigenous peoples. It is very easy to fall into colonial thinking.
