Fearing Yellow, Imagining White: Media Analysis of the ...

The Christian religion is one of the oldest purveyors of racist logic (Smedley 1993, West 1988). And in the 16th century, the notion of “savage” was used to justify the organized slaughter and exploitation of Africans and indigenous peoples (Smedley 1993 p,60). For the “savage” was “first of all a ‘heathen,’ a godless and immoral ... ................
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