Braiding Together Histories by https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f Black, Asian, and Indigenous Experience in the Native Southwest en-us 2020-10-17 18:02:44 UTC 2023-11-11 11:22:31 UTC hello@padlet.com Settler colonialism is predicated on the “elimination of the native.” Incarceration and Ecological Imperialism ultimately served this end. alexanderdimeglio https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f/wish/846550142 2020-10-20 20:09:47 UTC https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f/wish/846550142 https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f/wish/846561955 Santa Ana River pollution]]> 2020-10-20 20:13:42 UTC https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f/wish/846561955 Monjerio Virtual Tour https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f/wish/846566704 (pictures 25-30)]]> 2020-10-20 20:15:21 UTC https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f/wish/846566704 Resistance through the Rebel Archive https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f/wish/846606903 In fact, rebels and their many struggles with incarceration clog the historical record. The words and deeds of dissidents constitute what I call a “rebel archive” that evaded LAPD and LASD destruction. Comprised mostly of broken locks, secret codes, handbills, scribbled manifestos, and songs, the rebel archive found refuge in far-flung boxes and obscure remnants. But it also thrives in plain sight. The rebels’ words thundered in the halls of the U.S. Congress, their resistance forced the U.S. Supreme Court to issue emergency rulings, and their rebellions broke across bars and borders, changing the world in which we live. And in the summer of 1965, an uprising against the violence of human caging in the city exploded, burning the carcerai core of Los Angeles to the ground but leaving an archive of ashes and embers behind. I collected every scribble, song, and ember I could find. (Lytle Hernandez 4)]]> 2020-10-20 20:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f/wish/846606903 K https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f/wish/846615863 2020-10-20 20:33:45 UTC https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f/wish/846615863 Most carceral studies don't consider settler colonialism https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f/wish/846623183 The history of incarceration in the United States is a field of study largely dominated by analyses of labor control and racial subjugation. In turn, settler colonialism, a method of inquiry most powerfully developed in the field of Indigenous studies, and what it means for all of us, was not on my radar. (Lytle Hernandez 10)]]> 2020-10-20 20:36:09 UTC https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f/wish/846623183 Our Thoughts https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f/wish/846947404
  • Indigenous incarceration can come in many forms, both explicit and implicit (prisons vs. the domestication of Indigenous women in monjerios)
  • Our prison system has always operated along racial lines involving exploitation of labor
  • The idea of the archival void, it’s hard to do historical practice on communities that have been subject to erasure 
    • (Shannon, Madi, Maya) 
    ]]>     2020-10-20 23:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f/wish/846947404     https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f/wish/849550507 "Seth Kinman was an early settler of Humboldt County. He murdered Native people. He also made ugly chairs." - Cutcha Risling Baldy, Genocide and Fugly Chairs]]> 2020-10-21 16:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f/wish/849550507 Our Thoughts (Group 1) https://padlet.com/naomisussman/z6sw2y9h0lsf8s5f/wish/849652837
  • The carceral system has always operated as a radicalized means of control. Public order charges drove incarceration in the early Mexican period, and they continue to drive incarceration today (Lytle Hernández 30, 36). 
  • The carceral system has always been deeply intertwined with capitalist, exploitative systems of labor and enslavement (Lytle Hernández 33). 
  • Incarceration during this period was an intersectional issue, as is shown in Lytle Hernández’s discussion of Bridget “Biddy” Mason, a Black formerly enslaved nurse. They wrote: “It is hard to imagine that Biddy, a woman who knew enslavement well and defied it, did not see, understand, and even oppose what was happening at the county jail. Her own rebellion against enslavement suggests that her unpaid commitment to treating the county’s incarcerated population harbored more than kindliness. It was most likely an act of resistance; a practice of shoring up the possibilities of Native survival in a city where the county jail was an engine of Native elimination” (Lytle Hernández 41-42). 
  • The “gente de/sin razón” system’s dehumanization of Native Peoples allowed for their enslavement to be justified.  This settler view of Native Peoples as less than human has many parallels to the view of African people in the Atlantic slave trade.

    • (Anna, Ben, Amanda) 

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    • Slight emphasis on collaboration
    • Relationships between marginal communities: Indigenous and Chinese communities building relationships  because of similar labor status (95). Kinships developed as a way to survive. Resisted the roles imposed by the European  settlers on them this way, like segregation
    • Chinese-Paiute marriages (pg95, in 1870)
    • Economic impacts, railroad connected disparate communities with labor and economic means
    • Everyday forms of resistance, (87), labor as a form of social action. Labor and its impact on racialization and the development of a racial hierarchy
    • Protection that centers on profit instead of humanity: Business leaders would protect Chinese people from racism when it was beneficial to them economically 
    Chang:
    • Emphasis on the importation of Chinese labor, but didn’t acknowledge Indigenous lands pg 57-58
    • Different groups treated as commodities, bodies turned into ideas of labor instead of humans, different people relating to each other based on the labor demands of colonizing powers
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