HIS395H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Racialization, The Contours, Clifford Sifton
Document Summary
The contours of racism and colonialism in the early twentieth century. Words in article that marginalize or other" indigenous people: red man, barbarian, virgin forest (europeans penetrating virgin" forests . As if nothing and no one was there its about domination, taking something and making it one"s own: savages, great thieves, tribal society, two-legged wolves, indian. 19th 20th c racial thought: social darwinism: herbert spencer and british social thought, end of reconstruction in us (1876) and jim crow. Racialization of first nations and degrees of whiteness": superintendant of immigration william scott, immigration and. Immigration officials effectively prevented african-americans from coming to. Canada: actively discouraged private schemes and instructed agents in us to withhold assistance from individuals, never adopted legislation: wanted to appear superior to us. Though racism was latent, only came to fore at moments of crisis: oklahoma statehood (1907), jim croaw laws & racial violence. Many people that fall under these racial laws were indigenous peoples.
