JUST 221 Study Guide - Final Guide: John Nance Garner, Intersectionality, Carrie Buck
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Smith (=2): gender violence & colonization are intrinsically intertwined. Smith says that native people cannot work through decolonization & reclaiming their identity until they first work thru gender violence. Even back to bible times, native people were viewed as worthy of destruction. Rape of native women was not considered violation because they were already considered impure. their nakedness marked them as being perverse. ivory soap ad: used to illustrate that natives are dirty & need to be cleaned (civilized). Inherently sinful & dirty, then basically being a native is a sin. Both native men & women were abused, but women were more so because of their ability to reproduce. Colonizers believed they were actually freeing native women from. Still continues in latin america: 1982 mayan massacre in guatemala; women & children abused & killed. Still continues in north america: white men rape & murder native women & then blame it on native men; sterilization of.
