WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Indian Act, Misdemeanor, Commodification
4 Dec 2016
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Lecture 6 - indigenous women, colonialism and the canadian state. Capitalism is an economic system in which trade, industries, and the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit. One pillar of white supremacy is the logic of slavery. The forms of slavery may change, but the logic remains consistent. This logic is the anchor of a capitalist system that commodifies all workers. The capitalist system operates on a racial hierarchy. The implanting (conquest) of settlements on distant territory. When people from the colonizing countries become the population. Classic form: people move to another country and govern the country. Deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group. Through colonization, 90% of the aboriginal population was wiped out through disease and violence. Punished for speaking their own language, forced to adopt european cultures. The goal of the residential school was to take the indian out of the indian.
