Racism, the Global Genocide & Conflict

“If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're

uncomfortable about asking questions, say you

are uncomfortable about asking questions and

then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a

question is coming from a good place. Then

listen some more. Sometimes people just want

to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship

and connection and understanding.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

RECAP

Intersectionality

Equal Pay

Non-Intersectionality

● Women make 78 cents to every man’s dollar.

Intersectionality

● White women make 78 cents to every dollar a man makes vs. Black women who make 68 cents and Hispanic women make 54 cents to every man’s dollar

“The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is

not that the majority of people had no say in

whether or not they wanted this new world;

rather, it is that the majority have not been

given the tools to negotiate this new world.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

The Rise of Imperialism

the policy, practice, or advocacy of extending

the power and dominion of a nation especially

by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining

indirect control over the political or economic

life of other areas; broadly : the extension or

imposition of power, authority, or influence

Key Players

• Europe

• Abolitionists (Religious Missionaries)

• Indigenous Populations

Goals of Abolitionist

• Spread Civilization

• Equality at some point

• Send missionaries

• Confirm

• Give civilized values

Common Themes

• Power

• Isolation

• Civilization

• Land

• Science

Scientific Racism: Thomas Carlyle

● Occasional Discourse of the Negro Question: Return to some form of slavery○ The necessity of

inequality

Scientific Racism: Robert Knox (1840’s)

● “Races of Men”● Belief that race is

everything● There are specific

populations that are bound to struggle

Scientific Racism: Samuel George Morten

● Craniologist● Compared skulls● Size of skull and brain

mattered● Minority Groups not

fully human

Scientific Racism: Charles Darwin• Most powerful impact

on Race worldwide

• The Origin of Species

• Natural Selection

• Social Darwinists

(Herbert Spencer & Dr.

Benjamin K. Hays)

• Disease, Famine, El

Nino

• Food systems

Scientific Racism: Eugen Fischer (1908)

● One of Germany’s leading scientists

● Principles of Human Heredity and Race

● Studied Basters● Racial mixing always

bad

Eugenics Movement in America: 20th Century

• Immigration & Fear

• Sterilization

– Goals:

■ Take their lives and fertility

■ Determine what schools

you could go to

■ Where you could be buried

■ Where you could live

Eugenics Movement in America: 20th Century

Race in America: 21st Century

• Housing

• Education

• New Jim Crow

• Mental Health

• Police Brutality

• Microagressions

Discussion: Microaggressions

What are they?

What is conflict?What is violence?

Conflict

a relationship between two or more parties (individuals or groups) who have, or think they have, incompatible goals.

Violence

consists of actions, words, attitudes, structures or systems that cause physical, psychological, social or environmental damage and/or prevent people from reaching their full human potential.

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LET’S PRACTICE SOME CONFLICT MAPPING...Hopefully you read :)