Framing natives as uncivilized precludes their equal citizenship.
Evidence
To European eyes, including Hobbes’s, natural, ‘ab-original’ men are not only diHferent, they are necessarily a-historical, a-political, un-civilized. Models of modern citizenship and sovereignty, still dominant in the Western world, cannot accommodate such individuals. Indigenous populations, to whom such an ‘ab-original’ identity has been assigned, are therefore always, naturally, discriminated against: this a priori exclusion operates at the level of anthropological premises and is transformed into de facto exclusion from real political processes. The ‘ab-original’ man, if he wants to be a full citizen, must discipline himself, must become civilized: he must overcome his naturalness and therefore deny himself completely. — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 86
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Diversity rhetoric can camouflage which citizens remain deemed illegitimate; Formal citizenship fails to shield those perceived as foreign in appearance. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 237; Civility discourse smuggles in exclusion of those deemed different — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 208 (+6 more)
Related
- Hobbes’s prejudice against Native Americans was civilizational rather than racial. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Formal citizenship can mask disparities in substantive citizenship
#corroborates(0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 672 - Diversity rhetoric can camouflage which citizens remain deemed illegitimate
#corroborates(0.85) - Formal citizenship fails to shield those perceived as foreign in appearance.
#corroborates(0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 237 - Civility discourse smuggles in exclusion of those deemed different
#corroborates(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 208 - Loss of citizenship reduces people to mere natural differentiation without significance
#expands(0.78) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 738 - Cultural-erasure denial licensed apartheid and Native American dispossession
#complicates(0.75) — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 385 - Euphemistic labeling historically legitimized dispossession of native peoples.
#complicates(0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 287 - Racists consistently charged colonized peoples with lacking metaphysical depth
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