SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Internalized Racism, Albert Memmi
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Imperialism still hurts, still destroys and reforming itself constantly (pg. 19: writing about this an important endeavor for indigenous peoples. Includes the internalized aspects such as internalized racism and colonized minds. Cognitive distancing: the concept of considering indigenous peoples as not fully human or not human at all, which enabled distance to be maintained and justified various policies of either extermination or domestication (pg. Kill the indian, save the man: dehumanization had included a number of different practices including, residential schooling, removal of people to reserve, children taken away from families without permission. History: contested, the denial of history has been a tool used to colonize people, values of history, to hold alternative histories = to hold alternative knowledge in which they become the basis of alternative ways of doing things. It must be done outside of the colonial perspective.
