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COLONIZATION AND DECOLONIZATION
* Colonialism
* Colonialism is the subjugation by physical and psychological force of one culture by another through military conquest of territory and caricaturing the relation between the two cultures
* Two forms: Colonies of settlement (indigenous people are eliminated) and Colonies of Rule (colonial administration reorganize existing cultures by imposing new inequalities to facilitate exploitation
* Examples of colonies of rule:
* British use of local landlords (zamindars) to rule parts of india
* Confiscation of personal and common land for cash cropping
* Depriving women of their customary resources
* Elevation of ethnoracial differences (privileging of one tribe/culture over another)
* Results of Colonialism
* Cultural Genocide/Marginalization of indigenous people
* Introduction of New Tensions around class, gender, race and casre that persist even into postcolonial period
* Extraction of labor, cultural treasures, and resources to enrich colonial power
* Development of ideologies justifying colonial rule (racism, backwardness vs modernity)
* Responses of colonial subjects:
* Death
* Submission
* Internalization of inferiority
* Everyday resistance
* Sporadic Uprisings
* Mass Political Mobilization
* (Revolution)
* Social Psychology of Colonialism
* Social psychology of colonialism was built around stereotypes that have shape perceptions and conflict for centuries
* For Europeans, non-European or colonial subjects were backward/trapped in their tradition
* Europe (and USA) had a powerful social-psychological advantage rooted in its missionary and military-industrial apparatus
* Advantage was read as cultural superiority
* Devaluing of other cultures was common in all historical accounts
* Europeans encountered indigenous cultures: observed that the...