So What Exactly Is 'Blood Quantum'?

patriarchal colonization, in how the sexuality of the indigenous population as a whole—its entire productive and reproductive capacity—commands the attention of the colonial-military state.

same with all those other diseases Europeans brought us. We didn’t have any immunity to smallpox either, or the common cold, and we still don’t. How long does it take you to get over a cold? Two weeks max, right? For us, it’s thirty to sixty days, and the purer the blood, the longer it takes.’

intellectuals”—the problem of how to reconcile “Japanese blood and Western intellect.”1

Then Australia opted for an even more progressive system than the United States had, one that would not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin. Instead, each potential immigrant would be evaluated on a "points" system, earning a score based on such factors as education, technical or professional training, and relativ

white men and Native women together,