This week’s readings were filled with such enriching and very interesting topics I do not know where to begin. But as I was making my way to the last reading, I thought of this quote from one of my professors in my undergraduate studies related to the topic of slavery. She said something along the lines of, “our history didn’t begin or end with the slave trade. The slave trade was just an abruption to our history.”

How I relate this to our readings, goes back to the belief that once colonizers came to the Americas the indigenous and the African culture was completely vanished. For the most part, a lot of it was erased but some of still remains.

Achill Mbembe’s necropolitics helps to outline the possibility of why history was erased or minimized for the people. Not knowing who you are and not relating to your surroundings is an easy method to kill out a group of people. Also with the creation of race as a power structure also helps to believe that your history is not as important as the colonizers.

Learning more about Potosí principle I believe can help better understand how we can prioritize the history of the indigenous and African history as it relates to the Americas.