OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 30318

colonialism

/kəˈləʊ.njə.lɪ.zəm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
colonialismo
The policy of a country seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of economic dominance.
It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race.
Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colon…
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