WGS 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Heterosexuality, Settler Colonialism, Heteropatriarchy

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Women’s and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS 301
• Professor: Robin Riley

Document Summary

Is a persistent social and political formation in which the colonizers/settlers come to a place, claim it as their own, and disappear the indigenous people that are there. We refer as a structure of a society. Because the us is balanced upon notions of white supremacy and heteropatriarchy, everyone living here is not only racialized and gendered but also has a relationship to settler colonialism. Too often the consideration of indigenous people remains rooted in understanding colonialism as an historical point in time away from which our society has progressed. They say they make the argument to centering settler colonialism with gender and. Women"s studies exposes still existing structure of settler colonialism and its powerful effect on both indigenous people and settlers. They say the rely on two intertwined ideas: The us and many other western countries including canada, australia and new. They say that settler colonialism it is exploitation of land that yields supreme value.