Skip to main content

Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race

Date created
2022-05-17
Authors/Contributors
Author: Johal, Am
Author: Paige Smith
Author: Kathy Feng
Author: Alyha Bardi
Author: Steve Tornes
Author: Alex Masse
Abstract
Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity in the Political Life of Race in the United States (University of North Carolina Press 2021) is about the displacement of Indigeneity in the discourse around race in American political theory. It specifically touches on settler memory and acknowledging the history of Indigenous peoples in colonialism, and then disavowing the active presence of settler colonialism and Indigenous politics in the present.Am and Kevin discuss how Black theorists, like James Baldwin, discuss indigeneity in their politics, and how tensions can arise between different conceptions of land, history, and identity. Kevin's overall project is to link antiracism with anticolonialism, which shows through in the conversation.
Description
Bio: Kevin Bruyneel is Professor of Politics at Babson College, teaching about  race, colonialism and collective memory. He wrote the books,  Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity in the Political Life of Race in the United States (University of North Carolina Press 2021) and The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.-Indigenous Relations (University of Minnesota Press 2007). Kevin was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, studied at Simon Fraser University and the New School for Social Research in New York City, and now lives and teaches in MassachusettsResources:Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity in the Political Life of Race in the United States by Kevin Bruyneel: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469665238/settler-memory/ Bacon's Rebellion: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/events-african-american-history/bacons-rebellion-1676/ W.E.B. Du Bois: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dubois/James Baldwin: https://nmaahc.si.edu/james-baldwinThe White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty by Aileen Moreton-Robinson: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-white-possessiveLayli Long Soldier: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/layli-long-soldierDr. Kim TallBear: https://kimtallbear.com/Cristina Sharpe: https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/cesharpe/Cedric Robinson: https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/robinson-cedric-j/I Am Not Your Negro: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/i-am-not-your-negro/Kyle Mays: https://www.kyle-mays.com/Afro Pessimism: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-argument-of-afropessimismFrank Wilderson: https://www.frankbwildersoniii.com/about/Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: https://www.leannesimpson.ca/Robyn Maynard: https://robynmaynard.com/Stuart Hall: https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/hall-stuart/Kēhaulani Kauanui: https://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/Jean M. O'Brien: https://shekonneechie.ca/biographies/jean-obrien/Lee Maracle: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lee-maracle-death-bc-indigenous-writer-poet-1.6245582Jodi Byrd: https://as.cornell.edu/news/new-faculty-jodi-byrdCampuses and Colonialism: https://www.oah.org/insights/opportunities-for-historians/cfp-campuses-and-colonialism-symposium/Malinda Maynor Lowery: http://history.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/lowery-malinda-maynor.htmlStephen Kantrowitz: https://history.wisc.edu/people/kantrowitz-stephen/Alyssa Mt. Pleasant: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/africana-and-american-studies/faculty/faculty-directory/mt-pleasant.html
Scholarly level
Peer reviewed?
No
Language
English

Views & downloads - as of June 2023

Views: 19
Downloads: 0