WOMN 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Food Force, We Were Children, Coddling
14 Apr 2016
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Book appointment to go over ideas for the project. Trc (truth and reconciliaion commission) reports are now available for download or can be ordered. Canada"s history with aboriginal people and japanese internment, how does this it with the idea of colonialism. Briish empire was set on building a white canada. Built on the idea that whiteness or europeaness is superior (imperialism) Idea that the setler colony should be like its parent country. The imperial belief that these people needed to be assimilated so that they could survive and thrive. Africville in halifax is also an example of colonialism. Film produced by nfb on this topic. Survivors themselves have done a lot - class acion lawsuit that lead to the development of the trc, collecion of stories to get document the history of the people, Genocide can happen as the result of colonialism but not necessary to have both.
