ETHN 1

Logic of elimination

Settler justification for destruction/elimination of culture or people groups to obtain land. Wolfe. Logic of elimination is discussed in a class titled "Land and Labor" because of the focus on establishing new settlements on land that was previously owned by indigenous populations. It is said that eliminating indigenous societies was a land-centered project that took place across the nation, so the primary focus was on acquiring new land. In order to establish new settlements, existing native settlements had to be destroyed. Eliminating indigenous societies was foundational to modernity because it helped shape the United States into what it is today. Without settlers and colonists eliminating native populations, the world would not be how it presently is. ** was settler colonialism successful.. what are the other tools of logic elimination. Kill you, kill food, ground, strip of culture. NOT JUST GENOCIDE. MULTIPLE TOOLS

Racialization

The process by which a group is assigned a real or imagined identity, stereotype, or physics characteristic which pints them in a negative light and results in unique ways of treatment. Alamaguer. A TOOL TO OBTAIN LAND

Ethnic succession

The process in which a new ethnic group (or groups) enter an already populated area and settle until the existing group (or their culture) is displaced or both groups meet an economic parity with one another. As the new group's economic status rises, it moves into new areas on par with their status. The area they leave behind will then be succeeded by a new ethnic group and the cycle will begin to repeat itself. Ethnic succession as opposed to colonialism, encompasses the displacement of cultural, social and ecological aspects alike. Fienup-Riordan.

Social Death

The process of not being seen as even human and not having any value to the world that you are in. Being able to be treated as however because you aren't even considered full human. Horseman

Place-based knowledge

A form of pedagogy in which the students learn about their surroundings, cultures, and environment as a basis for learning their other other subjects such as math, science, and language arts. Coulthard. Differs from capitalistic time based knowledge and they were seen as savages for say working with a crown but they continue to use it and work with the land.

Scientific racism

A phenomenon that involves the application of supposedly scientific methods to determine the differences between races. Historically, it has been a way to define the different races and rank them in terms of their perceived biological superiority. Almaguer.

Cult of Domesticity

A preexisting opinion about a woman's general role in society. It set a very restrictive and limited standard on how women were allowed to live, behave, and act. In broadest terms, society viewed women as stay home moms who were shunned to work outside of the home. The four criterion that supposedly defined women were that they were more religious, submissive, pure, and quiet. This set of rules strongly discouraged and restricted the moral status of women as well as lowered the roles of women and wives in the larger scope. Alamguer

Bacon's Rebellion

An armed rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon against the Governor William Berkerley in 1676. The cause of the rebellion was the governors refusal to retaliate against the Native Americans attacking the frontier settlements. It ended up with Bacon and his followers attacking the Occaneechi tribe, killing men,women, and children. After, Bacon and his men moved to Jamestown and burned the capital due to disagreement with the governors policies, causing Berkeley to retreat. Takaki.

Indentured servitude

Is exemplified by contract labor, where a person is under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time. Many indentured servants that came during the 17th century were white laborers from European countries such as Ireland and England to America. Most of these indentured servants came involuntarily, they were victims of the Irish slave trade, kidnapped, and rounded up and forced on a ship to America. Most of these white laborers worked in Maryland and Virginia, and faced difficult conditions; they labored all day, were often beaten and tortured, malnourished and unfed. Takaki.

Reproductive labor

Refers to the gendered labor predominantly done by women, free or underpaid, to reproduce the worker in a capitalist society. In the reading Labor, Marc Bousquet argues that reproductive labor is the "unwaged activities of child rearing by parents and other caregivers in the family and community" (144). Lecture 1.2. According to the reading "Labor" by Marc Bousquet, the labor activities expanded enormously in the early 1970s because of feminist activism and research. Selma James and Mariarosa Dalla Costa led an innovative "wages for housework" campaign by pointing out that the creation, training, and care of male wage workers depends on the often unwaged. They objected to the common understanding of reproductive labor, but they expanded the insight that capitalism's visibly waged activities depend on an elaborate supporting network of unwaged effort (143-144).