GWS Midterm Colonialism, Race, and Power

Neocolonialism

Using economic policies, financial institutions, and cultural influence to control developing countries instead of direct colonial rule

Racial formations

the sociohistorical process by which racial identities are created, lived out, transformed, and destroyed

Scientific/biological racism

Use of science and hypothesis to support or justify the belief in racism, racial inferiority or superiority, the practice of classifying individuals of different phenotype into different races

White supremacy

A system that protects white group interests and normalizes white political, economic, and social dominance through discourse, policy, and institutions

Bacon's Rebellion

Nathaniel Bacon led a multiracial coalition of Virginia planter/settlers, white indentured servants, and free, indentured, and enslaved Africans against the government of the Virginia Colony

Reparations

are compensation given to a harmed group—often by a government—to address and repair past injustices

Necropolitics

A concept by Achille Mbembe describing how states exercise power by deciding who gets to live and who is left to die

Femicidio

act of killing women because they are women

Juarez femicides

the ongoing killing and disappearance of women and girls in Ciudad Juárez since the early 1990s, marked by extreme violence, impunity, and state failure, the women are usually maquiladora workers