"Stereotyping Native Americans" Topic

"A common belief in the contemporary United States, often unspoken and unconscious, implies that everyone has a right to use Indians as they see fit; everyone owns them. Indianness is a national heritage; it is a fount for commercial enterprise; it is a costume one can put on for a party, a youth activity, or a sporting event. This sense of entitlement, this expression of white privilege, has a long history, manifesting itself in national narratives, popular entertainments, marketing schemes, sporting worlds, and self-improvement regimes.

From the earliest period of European colonization, images of Indians found expression in early drawings, engravings, portraiture, political prints, maps and cartouches, tobacconist figures, weather vanes, coins and medals, and books and prints. Initially, depictions of Native males and females were used to symbolize the North American continent in the international iconography of the day, representations that proliferated. The Indian Queen, an emblematic figure in use by the end of the sixteenth century, symbolized the Western Hemisphere. Her successor, the Indian Princess, became representative of the American colonies. During the Revolutionary period, America was portrayed as a feathered Indian defying British tyranny in printed materials of the day…"

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The article loses any pretension of being scholarly when the authors use the term 'white privilege'. Also loses my interest.

+1 Dn Jackson

Agree with @Dn Jackson.

+10 Dn Jackson.

Figured that might be the case from the title, and intro.

Of course. We should not use the phrase "white privilege", for whites have never been, and are not now, "privileged" to do or obtain things more easily than nonwhites in the US.

+1 Dn Jackson

Read my post on the ACW Board.