MDSD11H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Identity Politics, Indian Act, Light Skin
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Aboriginal education and anti-racist education: building alliances across cultural and racial identity. Identity politics: there is a divide amongst the aboriginal community in regards to who is. Authentic and real native indian and who is not. A critical race analysis can help analyze these identity politics as both an effect of colonialism and the movement towards cultural revitalization. This issue creates a cultural hierarchy of authenticity amon aboriginal people. A critical race analysis can help understand and potentially challenge the effects and processes of racialization that have historically, legally, and politically divided aboriginal communities and families (1069) Rather than thinking about identity as innate and individually determined, it is much more helpful to understand one"s identity as a construction, a product, and an effect of social and historical relations (1070) Identity political formations amongst aboriginal people are concerned with reclaiming their ways of understanding their distinctiveness and challenge dominant and oppressive ideologies.
