INTERNAL COLONIALISM

Question 1

INTERNAL COLONIALISM: INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF COLONIALISM

Answer 1

*“In order for that legitimacy to be complete, it is not enough for the colonized to be a slave, he must accept this role. The bond between colonizers is thus destructive and creative” (Memmi).  “In order to assimilate and experience the oppressor’s culture, the native has had to leave certain of his intellectual possessions in pawn. These pledges include his adoption of the forms of thought of the colonialist bourgeoisie” (Fanon).
 “Around 1890, a little over 6000 British officials governed almost 300 million Indians with help of a little over 70,000 European soldiers … “ (Hobsbawn 1989, p. 81)

Question 2

INTERNAL COLONIALISM: ROBERT BLAUNER “RACIAL OPPRESSION IN AMERICA” 1972

Answer 2

*“Because classic colonialism & America’s internal colonialism developed out of similar technological, cultural, and power, a common process of social oppression characterized the racial patterns in the two contexts - despite the variations in political & social structure” . Race has a very vital characteristic that is permanent.

Question 3

INTERNAL COLONIALISM: COLONIZED MINORITY

Answer 3

 Blauner: The colonized minority is different from immigrant minority.
o Colonized minority were stuck in jobs with little skills and little chance for social mobility because of their skin color.
o Colonized minority were stuck in agriculture or pre-industrial sector because of their skin color.

Question 4

INTERNAL COLONIALISM: CONQUERED PEOPLE

Answer 4

“In the case of colonialism, metropolitan nations incorporate new territories of peoples through processes that are essentially involuntary, such as war, conquest, capture, and other forms of force or manipulation” (Blauner p. 53).

Question 5

INTERNAL COLONIALISM: CONQUERED PEOPLE ARE NOT FREE LABOR

Answer 5

European immigrants even if they faced prejudice & discrimination could better themselves. “It is obvious that parallel alternatives were not to the early generations of Afro-Americans, and Mexican-Americans, because they were not part of a free labor force” (Blauner p.56) they had no choice in going to another job…they either worked there or starved

Question 6

INTERNAL COLONIALISM: COLONIAL LABOR PRINCIPLE

Answer 6

“By 1900 Anglo-Americans had assumed economic as wells as political dominant over most of the Southwest … a new pool of dependent labor was produced to work the fields and build the railroads of the region” (Blauner p.60). In 1900s, Unions were only for the “Whites”.

Question 7

INTERNAL COLONIALISM: MINORITIES

Answer 7

• Colonized minorities usually did not have the opportunities for social mobility because:
 Agriculture or other non industrial work. * concentration in rural areas *Away from dynamic centers of the nation * the more you pay the individuals the higher the cost of produce.

Question 8

INTERNAL COLONIALISM: CULTURE & SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

Answer 8

 European immigrants were similar to Anglo Americans
 Anglo Americans attempt to destroy the culture of the colonized because “culture and social organizations are important as vessels of a people’s autonomy and integrity..” (Blauner p.67)

Question 9

INTERNAL COLONIALISM: MIRANDE

Answer 9

“Internal colonialism differs from the classic variety in that it entails not the subordination of a distant land but the acquisition of antiguous territory. Once territory is acquired, local elites are disposed from power and indigenous institutions are completely destroyed.”