Visions for native children differ by which social categories they foreground

Evidence

Each refigures the appropriate sociological terrain for comparison; some speak in a language of racial attributes, others in a language of class. Each posits a different assessment of the relationship between political disposition, productive work, and inner character. Each, too, represents a slightly different political aperture, a different “cropping” of relevant knowledge—neither the same framing nor “ground.” — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 651

Categorization

• DEFINE: ‘Cropping’ introduced as a metaphor for how each colonial vision frames which knowledge counts as relevant ground.