"The Empire of All Maladies"
Thesis that blames indigenous people/culpability of the decline of native populations from colonial settlers.
What is the virgin-soil epidemics?
According to the author, there is no single, unified perspective of this group, just as there is no monolithic perspective from other global groups.
What are Indigenous peoples?
The justification(s) people used to justify and uphold the differences in race.
What is heritage/blood/biology?
Asian American are often refed to as this type of minority.
What is a model minority?
Responsible for violence, displacement, and exploitation in this context.
What is colonialism?
This Indigenous rights movement emerged in the 1950s alongside the African American civil rights movement and the broader social justice movements of the 1960s.
What is the pan-Indigenous movement?
The fact that no human populations have such a high degree of genetic differentiation that they are considered this.
What is the reason humans are only considered one race?
what is race (for people)
a social construct/ political devices
This major event is used to showcase ongoing colonialism and systemic oppression upon marginalized communities
What is COVID-19 and the ways it disproportionately impacted certain communities?
From the American perspective, the European settlers were perceived as this.
What is peaceful settlers?
The number of years between each US census.
What is every 10 years?
A term coined to defined overlapping or intersecting social identities and related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination.
What is intersectionality?
A term that can describe a country that violently colonizes and exploits countries.
What is a First World/Core Country?
The term free land, was used by settlers to encourage more European to come to America, many of whom were of this occupation.
What are slave owners?
Legislation that denied Asians the ability to move to the US.
What is the Immigration Act of 1917/Oriental Exclusion Act of 1924?
Someone that is not seen as true citizen of their country (often for Asian-Americans).
What is "perpetual foreigner"?
An obsession with the death, disappearance, and absence of Indigenous people rather than their continued, visible presence and challenge to colonialism
What are terminal narratives?
These 2 Native nations were subject to land allotment, with individual Native-owned parcels created by the U.S. government, often leading to fragmentation.
What are the Sioux and Ojibwe nations?
Religious differences between groups and using skin color as a form of discrimination, which is the origin of this answer.
What is the political origin of race?
This protest lasted 5 month and happened at which campus.
What is San Francisco State University and the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF)?