invisibilisation, authenticity, systemic racism and discrimination

Question 1

authenticity

Answer 1

idea of what an Indigenous person should be

Question 2

invisibilisation

Answer 2

failure to recognize contemporary indigenous presence

Question 3

visual imperialism

Answer 3

lack of control of visual criteria of your group
-> Eurocentric regimes of truth about Indigenous peoples in visual form

Question 4

racial authenticity

Answer 4

authenic indigeneity demarcated by phenotypes

Question 5

racial purity

Answer 5

people who are mixed are not authentically indigenous

Question 6

what are the two dynamics with Indigenous authenticity?

Answer 6

1. logic of elimination: mixing leads to assimilation
2. romanticism: any departure is a form of corruption

Question 7

cultural purity

Answer 7

authentic Indigenous cultures and denial of contemporary presence

Question 8

othering

Answer 8

separation between dominant group and oppressed group (fear is attached -> indifference to what happens to them -> removal of equal legal protection)

Question 9

direct discrimination

Answer 9

negative treatment of individual on the basis of the group they belong to and unconscious/conscious bias, prejudice and stereotyping direced toward the group
-> ex. racial profiling

Question 10

systemic discrimination

Answer 10

combines direct and indirect discrimination in laws, policies, norms and insitutional practices
-> equality does not equal equity
-> obvious in justice system because over-representation in sysem and under-representation in jury