WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Postcolonialism, One-Drop Rule, White Supremacy
13 Oct 2017
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Edward said: the practice, the theory, and the attitudes of a dominating metropolitan centre ruling a distant territory; colonialism," which is almost always a consequences of imperialism, is the implanting of settlements on distant territory . The scale and variety of colonial settlements generated by the expansion of. European society after the renaissance shows why the term colonialism has been seen to be distinctive form of imperialism. The perception of the colonies as primarily established to provide raw materials for the burgeoning economies of the colonial powers were greatly strengthened and institutionalized. The relation between the colonizer and colonized was locked in a rigid. Darwin"s evolution of mankind and the survival of the fittest race" went hand in hand with the doctrines of imperialism. The ideology of race was also a crucial part of the construction and naturalization of an unequal form of intercultural relations.
