I am going to talk about my quotes and use them as my key points. The quote, "The racist belief was that white women needed to be protected from predatory black men, when in fact, black women needed protection from white men." Black men were lynched and victimized because of the belief that they were out to rape the white women. If a black man did have sex with a white women and someone found out, most likely to save her own ass she would cry rape. Now niggas was getting killed over the fact that white men were scared of black men raping their women when the fact of the matter is, was that the white men were the ones that were raping anyone. When Whites would lynch blacks they would a lot the time mutilate the bodies of the black people being lynched including cutting off their genitals. Ida B. Wells did a study and said approximately 10000 people had been lynched. During the same time period no white person was lynched for raping or killing a black person. Now they cant say it didn't happen cause it did. The next quote is, "The ideology as native women's bodies as rapable is evident in the hundreds of missing indigenous women in Mexico and Canada." This quote says so much about how native women are viewed. It goes on to share facts like since 1993, over 500 women have been murdered in Juarez, Mexico. A majority of them were sexually mutilated and raped and tortured, having their nipples cut off. This shows that their bodies are only looked at for the thoughts of pleasure and in a sexual way. This act of sexual violence is so crude and crazy. This chapter showed me that violence comes in many ways and when it comes through sexual violence there is a lot of problems for those involved. The victims have to live with themselves after being taken to the lowest of lows. Thanks to this chapter I have an understanding of sexual violence.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Chapter 1: Sexual Violence as Genocide
This chapter is about colonization and colonizers use of sexual violence to aid the genocide that came along with the colonization. When you think about when Europeans came to America they obviously used sexual violence as a big part in taking the land and making it their home. I think this chapter helps aid the fact that when there is sexual violence involve in a thing such as genocide and colonization, it lowers what the people ,that are being taken advantage of, think of themselves. This chapter helps with the understanding how sexual violence is such a big emotional blow.
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Smith definitely makes a strong case for understanding the gendered and sexualizing mechanisms in the colonizing projects of the United States, Canada,... and to a more limited degree--Mexico.
What are the reasons that black women charge 'rape' against white men from 1652 to 1865, and beyond... especially in the U.S.? Does Smith make that element clear?
Sexual violence has had enormous impacts on indigneous societies, and multigenerational scars. In what ways did the normalized practices of rape infiltrate into all social spheres where whites, indigenous and slaves (foreparents to African-Americans/Blacks) interact? How have labor practices reinforced the colonial relationships of violence used as a tool and weapon to pacify subordinated groups? Is sexual violence an issue that can be simplified as a white-on-indigenous or white-on-black issue? How has colonialism and its methods of subjugation impacted communities of color and reinforced subordination and violence as tools of oppression?
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