Two Recommended Google Searches

[Mia Kalish]

For people who are interested in how the social ideas that were popular in
last few centuries have contributed to what we see today as "truth" about
Indigenous People around the world, search "Darwin's cousin". To learn more
about how the Eugenics concept (which Hitler got from the U.S., by the way,
not the other way around) is held in place even in contemporary times,
search "Harvard Eugenics". 

 

This may not Seem Relevant on the surface, but when you think how people
develop their "common belief systems" by listening both to the experts and
to the beliefs in their social groups, then you can see how much of the
research attitude toward Indigenous people evolved and remained in place.
You can also begin to see what Indigenous scholars are talking about when
they talk about the wide division between how Indigene views the world, vs.
how academe views the world. 

 

(For this knowledge, I owe a debt of gratitude to my mentor, Dr. Elba
Serrano :-) I was her TA in an Ethics class. Every institution should have
one - an Ethics course, I mean. And it should be required.)

 

 

Best, 

Mia 

 

 

 

 

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