Invisibility in the Color-Blind Era: Examining Legitimized Racism against Indigenous Peoples

Robertson, Dwanna L.

doi:10.5250/amerindiquar.39.2.0113

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“…Indigenous scholarship highlights that discrimination against Native peoples partly stems from omission, a unique form of bias facing Native peoples across numerous domains (Deloria et al, 2018;Eason et al, 2018;Fryberg & Eason, 2017;Lomawaima & McCarty, 2014;Rifkin, 2011;Robertson, 2015;Veracini, 2011), including media (Cooperative Children's Book Center, 2020;Nielsen, 2020), education (Shear et al, 2015), and academic research (Brady et al, 2018;Fryberg & Eason, 2017;Lopez et al, 2022). For example, less than 1% of prime-time television, film, or video-game characters are Native (Tukachinsky et al, 2015).…”

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We Are Still Here: Omission and Perceived Discrimination Galvanized Civic Engagement Among Native Americans

Dai,

Yellowtail,

Munoz-Salgado

et al. 2023

Psychol Sci

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Leading up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Native American organizations and tribes launched get-out-the-vote campaigns that motivated Native peoples to vote in record numbers and helped flip battleground states. We conducted four studies (total N = 11,661 Native American adults) to examine the social and cultural factors explaining this historic Native civic engagement (e.g., campaigning). Results revealed that the more participants identified as being Native, the more they reported (a) engaging in civic activities, including get-out-the-vote behaviors during the 2020 election (Study 1); (b) civic engagement more broadly across a 5-year period (pilot study, Study 2); and (c) intentions to engage in civic activities in the future (Study 3). Moreover, participants who more strongly identified as Native were more likely to recognize the omission of their group from society and perceive greater group discrimination, which both independently and serially predicted greater civic engagement. These results suggest that leveraging the link between Native identification and group injustices can motivate action.

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We Are Still Here: Omission and Perceived Discrimination Galvanized Civic Engagement Among Native Americans

Dai,

Yellowtail,

Munoz-Salgado

et al. 2023

Psychol Sci

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“…Erasing Natives from the public consciousness is one of the primary forms of contemporary anti-Native racism (Deloria et al, 2018;Eason et al, 2018a;Rifkin, 2011;Robertson, 2015). Erasure takes two forms: (1) erasing the existence of contemporary Natives and (2) erasing Natives who exist outside of a limited set of homogenous depictions.…”

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Erasing and dehumanizing Natives to protect positive national identity: The Native mascot example

Dai

Lopez

Brady

et al. 2021

Social & Personality Psych

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For individuals who view being American as central to their sense of self, the reality of Native oppression (e.g., genocide, police brutality) threatens their ability to maintain a positive national identity. We theorize that long-standing narratives in American culture erase and dehumanize Natives, enabling non-Natives to psychological distance and justify Native oppression as a means of protecting positive national identity.We illustrate this protective process using the example of Native mascots. We first demonstrate that Native mascots erase and dehumanize Natives and then illustrate how the use of Native mascots protects national identity. We conclude by calling for individual-and institutional-level changes to create a society free of harmful and toxic narratives and the practices that perpetuate these narratives.

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“…In the U.S., the building blocks of settler colonialism are white supremacy, the genocide of Indigenous peoples, the enslavement of African peoples, and the exploitation of nature, accomplished through violence and the religious justification of that violence (Dunbar-Ortiz, 2015;Whyte, 2016bWhyte, , 2016cMoreton-Robinson, 2014;Tuck & Yang, 2012). Given that race is socially constructed, the structure of settler colonialism helps explain the nature of racism and its ongoing effects in the U.S. For example, both Europeans and Euro-Americans have used racialized discourse to reframe the systematic dispossession of "othered" groups as righteous and godly acts, serving to justify eradication measures against Indians (Robertson, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Theorizing race and settler colonialism within U.S. sociology

2020

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Settler colonialism expands race and racism beyond ideological perspectives and reveals the links between historical and contemporary racialized social relations and practices–the racial structure–of American society. In this article, we define settler colonialism, highlight sociological scholarship that uses settler colonial theoretical frameworks, and explore ways in which this work enriches, intersects with, complicates, and contradicts key assumptions within the sociology of race.

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Invisibility in the Color-Blind Era: Examining Legitimized Racism against Indigenous Peoples

Cited by 57 publications

References 8 publications

We Are Still Here: Omission and Perceived Discrimination Galvanized Civic Engagement Among Native Americans

We Are Still Here: Omission and Perceived Discrimination Galvanized Civic Engagement Among Native Americans

Erasing and dehumanizing Natives to protect positive national identity: The Native mascot example

Theorizing race and settler colonialism within U.S. sociology

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