1. Why do you think Dr. Morton was agreed with in his “white supremacy logic” even though he gave no scientific evidence?
To 'righteously' consider their race superior to blacks, whites had to believe they were more intelligent, so they would therefore have a right force their will upon them. Dr. Morton justified white reasoning by "presumably 'scientific evidence' of black mental inferiority" by dehumanizing blacks and "to support the notion of white supremacy and to justify racial segregation" (108).
2. Why were slaves viewed as childlike?
Slave owners said that their society was "'a patriarchal institution now', founded in pity and protection on the one side, and the dependence and gratitude of the other" (112). Blacks were viewed as immature as a way to show supposed intellectual superiority and to maintain control. Slaveowners treated their slaves as childlike to express the blacks' inferiority and the slaves' dependency on their white owners.
3. What is the difference between how southern and northern blacks were treated?
Southern blacks faced direct racism, and most slaveowners thought that "strict discipline was essential and that power had to be based on fear" (111); however, blacks from the North were supposedly "free", but were still targeted and thought of as inferior, and also "experienced discrimination and segregation" (107).
Monday, November 26, 2012
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Assimilation or Resistance
1. Choose the policy (Assimilation or Resistance) towards the United States & white Americans that is the most beneficial for the Tribes to pursue. Describe one political, one social and one economic reason that this policy is the most beneficial for the Tribes. Explain your answer.
Assimilation because although they will never be accepted, they can survive for at least a limited amount of time until they think of possible solutions. Meanwhile, they would be able to make a profit from wheat and cotton in the place of hunting, be accepted, to an extent, and make an attempt to become equal and eventually gain power in the American government. Also, they will still be able to consider resistance as a second option.
2. Choose the policy towards the United States & white America that is the least beneficial for the Tribes to pursue. Describe one political, one social and one economic reason that this policy is the least beneficial for the Tribes. Explain your answer.
The least beneficial policy was to resist, unless they were willing for their peoples to be wiped out. If the natives tried to resist, whites would try to kill off their game and would make it nearly impossible to maintain any source of livelihood, and although they wished to sustain their culture, including equality for women and collective land ownership, this path would lead to ruin much sooner than assimilation.
Assimilation because although they will never be accepted, they can survive for at least a limited amount of time until they think of possible solutions. Meanwhile, they would be able to make a profit from wheat and cotton in the place of hunting, be accepted, to an extent, and make an attempt to become equal and eventually gain power in the American government. Also, they will still be able to consider resistance as a second option.
2. Choose the policy towards the United States & white America that is the least beneficial for the Tribes to pursue. Describe one political, one social and one economic reason that this policy is the least beneficial for the Tribes. Explain your answer.
The least beneficial policy was to resist, unless they were willing for their peoples to be wiped out. If the natives tried to resist, whites would try to kill off their game and would make it nearly impossible to maintain any source of livelihood, and although they wished to sustain their culture, including equality for women and collective land ownership, this path would lead to ruin much sooner than assimilation.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Tempest in the Wilderness
7. How did Shakespeare's "The Tempest" depict Caliban? How was this depiction related to Natives?
In the play, Caliban was described as being "a devil, a born devil", along with physical traits that made him out to seem naturally immoral, unable of advanced thought, and incapable of education. These descriptions corellate directly to the natives in the way the English saw them, leading to the notion that the English, or whites, were superior to the natives, or others with darker skin.
8. What did the Puritans fear from the natives?
The Puritans externalized their fears of the body, sexuality, laziness, sin, and the loss of self-control onto the natives, which by means of justifying this, they directly related those fears with the natives, and by doing so, came to the rationalization that the natives, were in fact, in service to the Devil, or allied with the Devil in some way.
13. Why were the natives and Irish treated like savages?The natives and Irish were treated as savages because of the English's need to justify the massacre of indigineous peoples in order to obtain more land for their growing population. Because of their faith, especially with the Puritans, they easily accepted that the bible, and therefore God, wanted them to exterminate the other populations so that their societies would remain pure and free of sinners.
In the play, Caliban was described as being "a devil, a born devil", along with physical traits that made him out to seem naturally immoral, unable of advanced thought, and incapable of education. These descriptions corellate directly to the natives in the way the English saw them, leading to the notion that the English, or whites, were superior to the natives, or others with darker skin.
8. What did the Puritans fear from the natives?
The Puritans externalized their fears of the body, sexuality, laziness, sin, and the loss of self-control onto the natives, which by means of justifying this, they directly related those fears with the natives, and by doing so, came to the rationalization that the natives, were in fact, in service to the Devil, or allied with the Devil in some way.
13. Why were the natives and Irish treated like savages?The natives and Irish were treated as savages because of the English's need to justify the massacre of indigineous peoples in order to obtain more land for their growing population. Because of their faith, especially with the Puritans, they easily accepted that the bible, and therefore God, wanted them to exterminate the other populations so that their societies would remain pure and free of sinners.
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