01:920:101 Lecture 7: Week 3 Colonialism
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Colonialism & imperialism: colonialism: invasion, occupation, and exploitation of foreign land. Imperialism: strengthening of a nation by conquering and expanding territories. How did europeans justify colonialism: white man"s burden: white people are the most civilized and have to civilize the world, believed they had a right to do is, manifest destiny: white expansion to govern primitive culture, japan included. "colonialism helped develop the colonies, the should be thankful: genocide through law. Indian appripration acts: the dawes act of 1887, self determination: we didn"t ask you to build a school to teach your language, to my people, we didn"t ask for that shit, settler colonialism: colonizing and staying there. Impact long after abolition: 10 million africans. Impacts their descendants: african economies collapsed, warfare, lost millions of abled body men and women. Terms: race: how society sees you; this is not natural, ethnicity: how you see yourself, nationality: what passport you have, citizenship: where you have full rights.
