1.2 LESSON: Columbus' Landing and Erasing Native Resistance
June 17, 2020
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as posted by the channelIN THIS VIDEO, we cover the legacy of Christopher Columbus' landing in the Caribbean on October of 1492. Employing Michel-Rolph Truillot's methodology of deconstructing historical silences, we'll delve into how that mythologized event (often called the Discovery of the Americas, but which is more aptly described as the Castilian Invasion of the Caribbean) has erased narratives of indigenous resistance to the newcomers from the historical record. Stay tuned until the end to see how different nations have appropriated this event in order to serve their own national histories since.
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PRIMARY SOURCES:
Columbus, Christopher, B.W. Ife, and Ralph J. Penny. 1990. The journal of the first voyage. Warminster: Aris & Phillips.
SECONDARY SOURCES:
Schlereth, Thomas J. "Columbia, Columbus, and Columbianism." The Journal of American History 79, no. 3 (1992): 937-68. Accessed June 17, 2020. doi:10.2307/2080794.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 1995. The Silences of the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon Press.
Wynters, Sylvia. 1995. "1492: A New World View" (1995), Race, Discourse, and the Origin of the Americas: A New World View. Ed. Sylvia Wynter, Vera Lawrence Hyatt, and Rex Nettleford. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. 5-57.
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