Rabbit Proof Fence Colonialism

Dhanya Raghavan

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Topics in Continental Philosophy

Phil 41320

Dr. Danielle Petherbridge

Frantz Fanon and the Construction of Postcolonial Identities

Colonialism essentially began as an enterprise where one nation took complete political control of another nation seeking to extend its authority over the other country by aiming to develop them and exploit them for the benefits of the colonizing country. Colonialism explores the relationship between an indigenous population and the colonial power and the ways in which it exploits the indigenous population both economically and socially for the interests of the colonizer. Colonialism involves the negation of the values of the native populations and the implementation of the superiority of the colonial power.

One of the key aspects of colonialism is the process of “othering” where indigenous

The 2002 Australian film titled Rabbit Proof Fence, witnesses the experiences of an Australian Aboriginal family who are essentially members of the Stolen Generation where children of a mixed race were brutally removed from their families during the 20th century and the central characters in the film struggle to reunite with their family members.

The Battle of Algiers is yet another film that was directed in the year 1966, which essentially captured the events of the Algerian war against the French government in Africa.

Advertisements like that of fairness creams reiterate the idea of the need to have a fair skin which is again a very colonial concept. These ads often capitalize on the psyche of the audience by creating false need to have a fair skin in order to be accepted in the society. There is an immense reverence to white skin as white skin has always been associated with intellect, beauty, dominance and