COLONIALISM Flashcards
COLONIALISM: THE WORLD
COLONIZATION SERVES ONE PURPOSE
COLONIALISM: AGE OF EXPLORATION
15TH TO 17TH CENTURY SPANISH, FRENCH, DUTCH, ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE EXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION
COLONIALISM: THE WORLD
EUROPEANS SEE LAND AS UNINHABITED AND OPEN TO MASSIVE SETTLEMENT
COLONIALISM: THE WORLD
THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME OF RULE BY ALIEN MINORITIES WHO REPRESENTED, MACHINE ORIENTED CIVILIZATION, POWERFUL ECONOMIES, CHRISTIAN ORIGINS, RAPID PACE OF LIFE, AND WHO ASSERTED FEELINGS OF RACIAL & CULTURAL SUPERIORITY OVER INDIGENOUS MAJORITIES WHO WERE SEPARATE FROM AND SUBORDINATE TO THE RULING COLONIAL RACE (PEATTIE 1984)
COLONIALISM: THE WORLD
MARKET DRIVEN COLONIZATION: INDUSTRIAL ECONOMIES NEEDED CHEAP RESOURCES, STRONG SENSE OF CHRISTIAN MISSION & DUTY AND RACIAL DIFFERENCES ARE IMPORTANT
COLONIALISM: ALBERT MEMMI
THE COLONIZER AND THE COLONIZED (1957)
COLONIALISM: FRANTA FANON
THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH (1961)
COLONIALISM: FRANTA FANON
PROFIT, PRIVILEGE, AND URURPATION (THE 3 COMPONENTS TO COLONIZATION)
COLONIALISM: PROFIT (FANON)
THE CHANGE INVOLVED IN MOVING TO A COLONY IF ONE CAN CALL IT CHANGE, MUST FIRST OF ALL BRING A SUBSTANTIAL PROFIT (MEMMI); CAPITALISM, IN ITS EARLY DAYS SAW IN THE COLONIES A SOURCE OF RAW MATERIALS WHICH, ONCE TURNED INITO MANUFACTURED GOODS, COULD BE DISTRIBUTED ON THE EUROPEAN MARKET (FANON); MORE THAN 1/2 OF ALL BRITISH SAVINGS WERE INVESTED ABROAD AFTER 1900 (HOBSBAWM); EXPLOITATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES, SUCH AS COPPER, DIAMONDS, RUBBER, COTTON, ETC,; EXPLOITATION OF THE COLONIZED'S LABOR. PLANTATION & MINES..EXAMPLE: DE BEERS WAS CREATED BY CECIL RHODES IN 1880
COLONIALISM: PRIVILEGE (FANON): NO DOGS OR CHINAMEN ALLOWED
TO DIFFERENT DEGREES EVERY COLONIZER IS PRIVILEGED AT LEAST COMPARATIVELY SO, ULTIMATELY TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE COLONIZED (MEMMI); IN DAKAR OF MOMBASA THE MODEST CLERK WAS A MASTER, AND ACCEPTED AS "GENTLEMAN" BY A PEOPLE WHO WOULD NOT EVEN HAVE NOTICED HIS EXISTENCE IN PARIS OR LONDON; THE WHITE WORKER WAS A COMMANDER OF BLACKS (HOBSBAWM); THE COLONIZER IS ALWAYS SOCIALLY SUPERIOR TO THE COLONIZED
COLONIALISM: USURPATION (FANON)
TO BE SURE, A USURPER CLAIMS HIS PLACE, AND IF NEED BE, WILL DEFEND IT BY EVERY MEANS POSSIBLE; HE ENDEAVORS TO FALSIFY HISTORY, HE REWRITES LAWS, HE WOULD EXTINGUISH MEMORIES…ANYTHING TO SUCCEED IN TRANSFORMING HIS USURPATION INTO LEGITIMACY (MEMMI)
COLONIALISM: DEGRADATION OF CULTURE
HE NEVER FORGETS TO MAKE A PUBLIC SHOW OF HIS OWN VIRTUES TO APPEAR HEROIC & GREAT. AT THE SAME TIME, HIS PRIVILEGES ARISE JUST AS MUCH FROM HIS GLORY AS FROM DEGRADING THE COLONIZED. HE WILL PERSIST IN DEGRADING THEM, THE DARKEST COLOR TO DEPICT THEM (MEMMI)
COLONIALISM: DESTRUCTION OF HISTORY
THE MEMORY WHICH IS ASSIGNED HIM IS CERTAINLY NOT THAT OF HIS PEOPLE. THE HISTORY WHICH IS TAUGHT HIM IS NOT HIS OWN (MEMMI); ALL THIS GETS DISTORTED and DESTROYED; THE SETTLE MAKES HISTORY; HIS LIFE IS AN EPOCH, AN ODYSSEY; HE IS THE ABSOULTE BEGINNING (FANON); THE AMERICAN FLAG HAS NOT BEEN PLANTED IN FOREIGN SOIL TO ACQUIRE MORE TERRITORY BUT FOR HUMANITY'S SAKE, PRESIDENT WILLIAM MCKINLEY, JULY 12, 1900.
COLONIALISM: RACISM
EQUALITY IS IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF THE COLONIZED. IN OTHER WORDS, AND THIS THE CHARACTERISTIC WHICH COMPLETES THIS PORTRAIT, THE COLONIALIST RESORTS TO RACISM. IT IS SIGNIFICANT THAT RACISM IS PART OF COLONIALISM THROUGHOUT THE WORLD; AND ITS NO COINCIDENCE. RACISM SUMS UP AND SYMBOLIZED THE FUNDAMENTAL RELATION WHICH UNITES COLONIAST AND COLONIZED (MEMMI)
COLONIALISM: BARRERA
RACIAL IDEOLOGIES CAME ABOUT IN LARGE PART BECAUSE THEY WERE USEFUL IN JUSTIFYING CLASSIC COLONIALISM AND THE NEO-COLONIAL AND INTERNAL COLONIAL RELATIONSHIPS THAT GREW OUT OF IT.
