NAL Key Vocab

Colonization

Taking control of land and people by settling there.

Decolonization

Gaining independence from colonial rule

Amazigh

Indigenous people of North Africa

Barbarian

A biased term for people seen as “uncivilized”

Colony

Land ruled by a distant country

Conquest

Taking land by force

Indigenous

Original inhabitants of a place

Eurocentric Diffusionism

Belief that progress mainly comes from Europe

Tunnel Vision

Narrow thinking that ignores other views

Inside-Outside Mentality

Dividing thought between inside and outside schools

Négritude

Movement celebrating Black identity and culture

Third Cinema

Film’s focused on social and political issues in the Global South

White Man’s Burden

Idea that Europeans must “civilize” others

Tuareg

Amazigh people of the Sahara

Colonization = Thingification

Treating people as objects under colonialism

Historic

Related to or aware of the past