POLI 317 Quiz 4

What is the purpose of Leroux’s (2018) article ‘“We’ve Been Here for 2,000 Years’: White Settlers, Native American DNA and the phenomenon of indigenization”?

To examine how research on genetic ancestry contributes to political efforts to redefine indigeneity in ways that oppose Indigenous forms of self-determination.

What is the impetus behind Leroux’s (2018) article ‘“We’ve Been Here for 2,000 Years’: White Settlers, Native American DNA and the phenomenon of indigenization”?

The substantial increase in family history research and DNA ancestry testing that has led to more French Quebecois “reimagining” themselves as Indigenous.

What is the main point of Viren’s (2021) article “The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t”?

To highlight the harms of Pretendian-ism in academia.

Who are the central figures of Viren’s (2021) article “The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t”?

Academics J. Kehaulani Kauanui and Andrea Smith (Smith claimed she was Cherokee)

What question is raised by Viren’s (2021) article “The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t”?

Why was Smith’s story treated differently than when academics or famous people pretend to be from another race?

What are some problems with Pretendian-ism highlighted by Good’s (2021) article “‘Play Indians’ inflict real harm on Indigenous people”?

• Play Indians adopt what they like about a culture, but don’t have deal with the adverse rates of poverty, death, homelessness, addiction, etc.

• They alter Indigenous reality by representing their sanitized and contrived ideas as real, using their privilege to render real Indigenous people unable to object.

What is the “hallmark” of the Play Indian, according to Good’s (2021) article “‘Play Indians’ inflict real harm on Indigenous people”?

An overblown idea of Indigenous knowledge and visual trappings (e.g., costumes, tattoo identification art, feathers, etc.)

What is Blackfishing, as defined by Sicardi’s (2025) article “The Kardashians changed the way we see beauty – for better or for worse”?

When people use tools like makeup, Photoshop, and cosmetic surgery that make them appear more Black.

What is a key point of Sicardi’s (2025) article “The Kardashians changed the way we see beauty – for better or for worse”?

The Kardashians have commodified and fetishized Blackness through their social media accounts and beauty lines.

What are the main points of The Secret Life of Canada podcast episode “What’s the deal with blackface?”

• Blackface emerged from black minstrelsy, which came out of the northern states (in which slavery was illegal)

• Minstrelsy led to caricatures

• McGill has a long history of blackface

• Blackface is most prevalent in Quebec, which is connected to the greater context of Quebec identity

• Blackfishing is the newest form of blackface or black minstrelsy

What is the purpose of Aladejebi et al.’s (2022) article ““We The North”? Race, Nation, and the Multicultural Politics of Toronto’s First NBA Championship”?

To highlight the contradictory ways that the Raptors coverage mobilized symbols of the North and multiculturalism to present the team as quintessentially Canadian and rebrand basketball for Canadian audiences.

What are the main points from Aladejebi et al.’s (2022) article ““We The North”? Race, Nation, and the Multicultural Politics of Toronto’s First NBA Championship”?

• The rebranding of basketball for Canadian audiences with the “We the North” campaign — bridging the white supremacist Canadian symbol of the North with uban imagery

• The media coverage of Raptors superfan Nav Bhatia as an example of how Canadian sport culture uses Indigenous, Black, and Brown bodies to reflect its multicultural authenticity to make basketball more palatable

• The restricted access to public basketball spaces post-2019

What is the hat-trick of racism discussed by Sandrin and Palys (2022) in their article “The Hat-Trick of Racism: Examining BIPOC Hockey Players’ Experiences in Canada’s Game”?

verbal incidences, physical manifestations, and subtle acts and microaggressions

What is the tension addressed by Sandrin and Palys (2022) in their article “The Hat-Trick of Racism: Examining BIPOC Hockey Players’ Experiences in Canada’s Game”?

Multiculturalism vs. Canadian hockey culture

What are some topics discussed in Joe’s Basketball Diaries Episode 3: “Model Minority”?

• The Canadian Chinese Youth Athletic Association (CCYAA) — Asian Canadians in basketball

• The story of Bill Russell

• How we’ve evolved to more of a “polite racism” and culturalism overtime

What are some topics discussed in Joe’s Basketball Diaries Episode 6: “Women & Sport”?

• Title IX and how it doesn’t proportionally benefit WOC

• White feminism

• Absence of women as sports journalists

• Patriarchal structure of sports teams

• The WNBA’s leadership in social activism

• Uniforms

• Black women in sport: Anomaly if you succeed, expectation if you fail