HIS 184 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Racial Fetishism, White Southerners, Heteronormativity
Document Summary
The sexual stereotyping and sexual violence of immigrants emerged as a new culture that. For the native inhabitants of california and the influx of. Europeans and americans during the eighteenth and nineteenth century, following this agenda asserted not only control of the land, but also racial superiority. While indians and ethnic minorities coveted to regulate their own lives, the spaniards and white southerners negated their efforts by humiliating their adversary"s with the objectification and racial fetishism of indian and. The spanish missionaries endorsed the heteronormative sexual customs, which urged friars to reform indian sexuality and culture. According to historian albert hurtado, the establishment of missionaries and the spaniard"s understanding of indian culture prompted many friars to actively teach indians about catholicism and to preserve the continuation of their. Subsequently from the 1700s through the 1800s, 2,374 indians were remarried in the church.
