Savage Anxieties explains how, like bad money driving out good, a savage society will win every time. Williams, Jr., he underscores how the U.S. (Enrolled Member, Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina) is Regents Professor, E. The suspicion grows that Western agents are the savages and the peace-loving natives the superior race. Question: In Savage Anxieties: The Inventions of Western Civilization by Robert A. Later, they would deploy very similar rhetorical strategies to justify extermination and enslavement in other parts of the world. Reaching back to antiquity, they resurrected myths about one-eyed giants and other monsters to rationalize the harsh treatment they were visiting on Indians and Mexicans. “Armed with guns, horses, and machines, European settlers relentlessly mowed down, pushed aside, and in some cases enslaved peaceful natives they found living in the new worlds they were overrunning.
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