Sexual Violence as a tool of genocide - Andrea Smith
Here in this article, it is demonstrated that sexual violence as women creates genocides against their identities. It also a calling to the injustices of how women of color were targeted by white men. Native Americans were raped by white men who disguise themselves and themselves native men. Companies such as ivory soap was responsible to promote the Native Americans Indians as dirty and uncivilized. Yet sexual violence as racism is woven into our country, we can change it because it was socially constructed. Native Americans are being used as artifacts and put up into museums, yet we do not see white European figures in display. In order for anyone to teat anyone else differently, they must dehumanize their victims. Indians have begun hating them after all they have told many times and started believing other people words. Rape was used differently in different races. As for African Americans, they were rape to reproduce more slaves, but as for Indians women they were raped to take away their identities. Before Indians had contacted with Europeans, Indians did not practice war and if they did they did as a symbol to gain honor but their intentions were never to kill anyone. Women of color have been victimized everywhere, not only in the U.S. but also in South America and Mexico, they are viewed as a threat to the nation’s identity. Therefore, they are said to have earn that treatment because they were inherent. Before, Native American were viewed as strong women, and because the white men worried that their women would become rebellious they needed to create a system were Native Americans would lose their strong