DAN 245 Chapter 3: Week 3 Reading 1
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Dan 245 textbook notes: week 3 reading 1. Journal for the anthropological study of human movement, vol. The american colonies fought to escape the imperialism of the british monarch, while then imposing their own version of imperialism on the indigenous people. People were categorized by race in a hierarchy that determined who was above who, who was civil and who was not. American indians have been imitated in the world of sports (team names, mascots) in order to objectify and distance them as an other. People who are not american indian have formed attachments to these symbols. The author claims that, at the university of illinois, supporters of the indian mascot create and defend a white public space where being white is the invisible normal and being anything else is a noticeable minority. The dance in no way resembles dance forms known to american indian peoples.
