Settler Colonialism

Question 1

What is settler colonialism?

Answer 1

People moving permanently to another area, thereby gaining foreign land (seizing property), and thereby displacing indigenous populations

Question 2

What is acculturation?

Answer 2

Cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture. A merging of cultures as a result of prolonged contact

Question 3

What form of migration/colonisation is settler colonialism?

Answer 3

It is permanent. It is a historical structure that destroys native populations and it asserts state sovereignty over native populations

Question 4

Give examples of settler colonies:

Answer 4

North America = Great Britain
Australia = Great Britain
New Zealand = Great Britain
North Africa, Algeria = France
South Africa = Great Britain, Dutch
Libya = Italy

Question 5

What happened in the southern parts of Africa with white colonial settlers in the period of decolonisation?

Answer 5

African activists fought for more participation in society. This inevitably lead to independence of Malawi in 1964 and Zambia 1965. In Southern Rhodesia white settlers became more radical and hindered decolonisation for a time

Question 6

What has the manifest destiny done for settler colonialism in the US?

Answer 6

It has been important to legitimize the expansion of the USA westward with settler colonialism

Question 7

What are the usual consequences of settler colonialism for the native population?

Answer 7

Usually violence and forced assimilation. Removal and relocation

Question 8

What is the General Allotment act of 1887?

Answer 8

Dispossession of Indian lands (Indians lose the possession of land), that where collective and then split up to individual adult men who would then earn citizenship (forced assimilation and individualization)

Question 9

What is the Indian citizenship act of 1924?

Answer 9

Giving Indians US citizenship without asking if they want it

Question 10

How are the US robbing the identity of Indians?

Answer 10

By remembering Indians as a thing of the past, not acknowledging their current existence. Indians today become visible through stereotypical outside viewpoints like selling Indian costumes

Question 11

What does “doing whiteness” mean?

Answer 11

It means to follow the maimstream in the US. Try to assimilate or be accepted into the WASP dominant culture

Question 12

Why where not the Scandinavians considered a threat in America?

Answer 12

They where seen as shy and obedient, as well as dumb. They wouldn’t think of rebelling

Question 13

What was the Black War, and when was it?

Answer 13

It was between 1828 and 1832. It was basically mass killings by colonist in South Australia. They came close to annihilate the Tasmanian Aborigines

Question 14

How is the living conditions for aborigines in Australia today compared with the rest of the population?

Answer 14

Poorer. More prone to violence, alcohol abuse, rape etc.

Question 15

What was the dominant theory on race prior to Darwinism?

Answer 15

Racial groups where distinct and they evolved from their environment. The whites where at the top and blacks at the bottom of the racial hierarchy

Question 16

What was expected by the British colonists in Australia?

Answer 16

That the indigenous population would die out

Question 17

What was the colonists view on Australia?

Answer 17

That it was a vast unsettled land, no civilized settlement existed there

Question 18

What was the white-Australia policy?

Answer 18

It restricted non-white immigration and lead to deportation of Pacific Islanders, Chinese and Japanese workers

Question 19

What did colonial racial logic categorise indigenous people as?

Answer 19

Savage

Question 20

How where the aborigines treated by the colonists?

Answer 20

There where many violent frontier clashes. The colonists had policies which eliminated and segregated the aborigines and eventually forced them to assimilation through child removal

Question 21

What is settler anxiety?

Answer 21

Both denial and acknowledgement of indigenous sovereignty

Question 22

Who wrote “Anxieties of belonging in settler colonialism” and what’s it about?

Answer 22

Lisa Slater: Settler colonialism in Australia and the violence between aborigines and colonists

Question 23

Who wrote “Scandinavians in Chicago” and what’s it about?

Answer 23

Erika K. Jackson: Scandinavians adapting to and changing American culture

Question 24

What was the Scandinavians in America seen as?

Answer 24

The whitest of the white

Question 25

How did Scandinavians use the “discovery” of America by Vikings?

Answer 25

They used it to legitimize their settlement in America, their cultural dominance and felt pride

Question 26

Why where Scandinacians acceptesd into American society?

Answer 26

They where seen as strong, obidient, able-bodied for work and non-threatening

Question 27

What where Scandinavians considered over Germans and the Irish?

Answer 27

Cleaner and tidier

Question 28

What is polygenism?

Answer 28

The idea that the human race are of different origins

Question 29

What is monogenism?

Answer 29

The idea that the human race has a singular origin

Question 30

What where Scandinavians better at than for example Russians?

Answer 30

Literacy. Scandinavians where exceptionally literate