Crises of Whiteness and Empire in Colonial Indochina: The Removal of Abandoned Eurasian Children from the Vietnamese Milieu, 1890-1956

Firpo, Christina Elizabeth

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“…In "Crises of whiteness and empire in colonial Indochina" Christina Firpo traces the history of French colonial kidnapping of "abandoned" Eurasian children, abandonment referring to the absence of the French father. 49 In other words, the colonial government targeted single Vietnamese mothers, considering them harmful influences on their own children, whose bodies the government saw as a battleground for racial domination. Firpo identifies that in the eyes of insecure French colonists, these children, dependent upon "[whitening]" and gender, had either "the potential to reveal the vulnerabilities of whiteness" or the potential to "bolster declining white population numbers".…”

Section: Hierarchy Labor and Violence Under French Colonizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining the U.S. Wars on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia as the Production of Neo-Colonialism

Gregg¹

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I interrogate the colonial and neo-colonial histories of the U.S. wars on Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos within the context of racialized and gendered labor accumulation, the production of difference through violence as a legitimation of colonial extraction, and ongoing neoliberal economic coercion. I examine genocide and ecocide as interdependent processes in the production of dependency and underdevelopment. I reject a common narrative of temporal and spatial disconnection which separates the wars from current economics and examine the violences which both produce and result from an economy based on growth.

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Section: Hierarchy Labor and Violence Under French Colonizationmentioning

confidence: 99%