HILD 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Color Terminology For Race, Frederick Jackson Turner, Settler Colonialism
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Goals of the lecture: clarify the concept of settler colonialism and its link to the frontier thesis, examine the relationship between us settler colonialism on hawaii and the immigration of people from east asia. Four centuries from the discover of americathe frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of american history. Idea of the frontier of open possibility has reached its limit; domestic frontier has closed, in need of finding a new one. The wilderness masters the colonistit strips off the garments of civilization and arrays him in the hunting shirt and the moccasin. It puts him in the log cabin of the cherokee and iroquois and runs an indian palisade around himin short, at the frontier the environment is at first too strong for the manlittle by little he transforms the wilderness . The man must adapt to this overwhelming force" of the wilderness; overcoming nature.
