SOCB47H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ku Klux Klan, Terra Nullius, Heteropatriarchy
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Noble savages contradiction between indigenous cults where they are assumed to be noble while the term savage is associated with unruly and uncivilized. Not being civilized enough to be like the rest of the population. Invisibilization of indigenous people- modernists believed throughout time people were getting better but also believed there was a certain hierarchy surrounding certain people around the world and how far they have gone through this development. This hierarchy of development and civilization positions people who are indigenous as. The term indian is a problematic term. yet icons/images of indians continue to pervade our society. We don"t play other games where such things as genocide have occurred. We don"t say blacks and klu klux klan. (p. 254) The playing of cowboys and indians have been so moralized it invisiblizes then the power relations that occurred through colonization in the americas.
