HUMA 1250 Study Guide - Final Guide: Diaspora Studies, African Diaspora, Coolitude

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Jay: character from mississippi he longs to return to his homeland. Even though jay has been forcefully displaced from his. Blackfoot: a first nations tribe, part of the north american. Blackfoot is also the algonquian language of the home, he holds a strong will to keep his cultural, religion and traditional practices alive. Act of resisting canadian identity is a deliberate and political. Nimr"s dad expresses the importance of having a act homeland and the importance of being able to return back to that homeland. Discovered america and begun the european exploration of. Thought that he could convert the indigenous people to his. Indigenous were seen as ignorant, barbaric, not intelligent. The coyote is a trickster figure who tricks indians into playing ball with her, but the coyote always wins because she makes up rules that increases her chances of winning. Strategic essentialism: the idea that a subject has an authentic essence".