Final Flashcards
Significant problems Native Americans face
Severe health problems
Epidemic levels of diabetes
Affordable care act upgrades NA health care
Forced adoptions of non native families, claims of genocide or ethnocide
How to get their land back
What todo if land base can no longer support
self sufficient food production
Language death continues
Fighting fossil fuel industry with wind and solar energy
Stereotypes of native Americans
Wild, dangerous, uneducated, dirty, savages, alcoholics, weird, underdeveloped, do a lot of drugs, red skin, can’t be trusted, Indian giver
Native American actual values
Children should take their own path
Respectful to the land, it is a part of you
Spirituality is a process of learning
Respect the women
Aunts and uncles are moms and dads cousins are bros and sis
Fam includes deceased
Mutualism–>everyone should be providing for each other in community
Give and give life
Animals and plants are relatives
No waste
Leave the earth better than how you received it
Looking at African Americans in anthropological terms
Nothing could be further from cultural relativism than lumping all these cultural groups into one racial category
The creation of the black or negro category was fundamentally a result of dehumanizing African people to enslave them
Every time someone refers to black people that history is being referred to
International slave trade of Africans
It is one of the true ironies of all human history that Africa the birthplace of humanity is returned to in order to enslave its inhabitants
One of the most dramatic filtering devices in human history–> only toughest people survived it
African Americans burial grounds in slaverys buried past
About 20,000 buried
Africans buried there by the British
These were the people that built the cities, they are as important as any other people that contributed
Slavery is not just about getting people to work for you, it’s dehumanizing
Most are dead children due to poor nutrition
NY, NJ, and Penn slave laws very repressive
Slavery in the 13 colonies
Provides the labor that creates the colonial wealth and leads to the creation of the US
Quickly becomes institutionalized in colonial law as plantation hunger grows for Africans
1660 slavery legally legitimized
Many small plantations sell out to larger ones
Leads to cigarette companies if today
Cigarettes are classical colonial symbol (death for profit)
Native land seized from people and Tabasco and enslaved Africans
The addiction to money and power makes people change laws
In Boston–> blacks, Indians, enslaved negros and mulattoes, forbidden from bearing arms, drinking during specified days or entertaining servants or slaves
Children at or before 4 are assigned an English master if not they are taken away at 21 (direct institutional discrimination)
Abolition and emancipation of slaves
Nothing fuels the industrial rev more than the genocide of native Americans and enslavement of Africans
Urban industrial growth making slavery and plantation economy less cost effective than immigrant cheap wage labor
Movement to end slavery not based on right or wrong but because transition from ritual to urban, made more sense not to have slaves
Civil war fought over which economy would dominate US
After civil war, Jim Crowe era begins as well as systemic lynchings of the kkk and mob terror
Jim Crowe segregation
How as southerners are we going to recontrol these people
State segregation laws in effect
Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case, separate but equal
Jim Crowe represents the attempt to re-dominate African American after the emancipation
Kkk and mob violence become normal forms of social control
All power to the people
Fred Hampton–> dynamic leader in black panthers killed by Chicago police
Set up breakfast programs for the poor, trying to solve problems in local communities
Developed because no health care, mistreatment and no opportunities
Dominant culture was not going to let them rise up
Black panther party feeding more than the American government about 10,000 people across the country
When efforts made success, government moved in (Dom culture)
Seen as the number one threat of society
Newspaper most important tool of black panthers
Mistreated to serve as an example
Imagine what would happen if they weren’t shut down, how many more people would have been helped, any time a minority group starts to rise up they are squashed so that their beliefs don’t spread
Expected to be satisfied on the bottom
The Tulsa race riots
Fighting erupted whites and black men outside a courthouse to prevent lynching of a black man accused of assaulting a white man
For 2 days up to 10,000 white stormed the prosperous Tulsa neighborhood if greenwood also known as black Wall Street killing 100-300 people and destroying 35 blocks and more than 1000 homes, businesses churches and hospitals
Death toll about 400 but probably higher, some victims were buried in mass graves
Reparations
What should be done to compensate people victimized by past discrimination
Judge consensus after the riots
They dismiss the riot reparations suit in 2004 because it’s too late for historic lawsuit seeking to force the state and city governments to pay reparations for the harm done to black residents
Birmingham 1963
Demonstrators brought down by police
Pre civil racism is still around and some people want to go back to that
Keep colonial hierarchy in place at all costs
African American culture
African American language and speech style (there is black English and AA English)
Legitimate dialect not slang
Brothers and sisters is a cultural way of addressing people
Afro-centric traditions
Music–> jazz, the blues, rap
Having soul and being cool
