Assimilationist violence repeats across generations in new institutional forms

Evidence

I didn’t think about it at the time, but it was happening all over again, an echo of my grandfather’s first day at school, when he was ordered to leave everything—language, culture, family—behind. The professor made me doubt where I came from, what I knew, and claimed that his was the right way to think. Only he didn’t cut my hair off. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 149

Categorization

• XREF: Direct parallel to ch8’s boarding school severing; the book braids the author’s experience to her grandfather’s across generations. — connects to: Ethnically absolutist communitarianism produces its own violence; State violence against racialized populations recurs across centuries and continents — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 22; A tradition of aggression normalizes renewed group violence — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 104

Broader Connections

• State violence against racialized populations recurs across centuries and continents #expands (0.88) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 22
• Ethnically absolutist communitarianism produces its own violence #qualifies (0.72)