ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Critical Thinking, Racialization, Family Values
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Indigenous experiences are universalized in the discourse of historical trauma. The history refers to a single-handedly indian residential schools and assumed with cliche of abuse, as if it is one monolithic experience for everyone. Historical trauma discourse is adapted by professionals to medicalize and pathologize aboriginal people (parenting, addiction, mental health, etc. ) Such discourses of trans-generational transmission as despair of future are pervasively integrated in daily lives of aboriginal people. It erases and displaces the real issue, which is sovereignty of the aboriginal people and land to be addressed: on-going colonialism. The works of duran and brave heart remain touchstones in historical trauma discourse by canadian professionals in aboriginal mental health, child development, and public health elds. In 1946, psychiatrist dr. stogdill: assumptions regarding the inferiority of indigenous family life and the moral imperative of modernizing colonial interventions demonstrate how professional discus can serve to legitimate colonial domination, while.
