Archive for April, 2010
Desmond Manderson, ‘Not Yet: Aboriginal People and the Deferral of the Rule of Law’, Arena, October 2009. From the ‘War on Terror’ to Malaya and Pakistan the language of ‘emergency’ has been used to suspend legal principles. Closer to home, legislation enacted in August 2007 has profoundly changed the treatment of large numbers of Aboriginal […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Political developments, Scholarship and insights | Closed
settler vs indians board game
Yet another game with settler colonial theme. While the post-Orientalism settler world has slowly moved towards the non-trivialisation of indigenous culture in the grown-up realms of culture, it seems that kids are considered okay targets for this continuing sort of nonsense. Eric Tucker, ‘Settler vs. Indians board game rankles tribes’, associated press: One player wins […]
Filed under: United States, wacky | Closed
p is for pilgrim
Love this. Buy it for your kids.
Filed under: art, United States, wacky | Closed
Jeanne M. Penvenne, Review Article: Valdemir Zamparoni. De escravo a cozinheiro: Colonialismo & racismo em Moçambique. Salvador: Editora da Universidade Federal da Bahia, 2007. Maps, illustrations, tables. 338 pp. no price listed (cloth), ISBN 978-85-232-0440-2. The book’s structure is essentially cross-chronological: four chapters, an introduction, a two-page conclusion, and a bibliography. Chapter 1 is the […]
Filed under: Africa, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
The latest on the Israeli Pass System, from BBC News: Israel has imposed a military order which rights groups say could see tens of thousands of Palestinians deported from the occupied West Bank. […] It classifies people without the right Israeli paperwork as “infiltrators”. […] The wording of the order, known as the Order Regarding […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, law, Political developments | Closed
cowboys and aliens
via Newspaper Rock Soon to become a movie, starring Harrison Ford. No joke.
Filed under: art, media, wacky | Closed
Margaret D. Jacobs, White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940, Univeristy of Nebraska Press, 2009. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state […]
Filed under: Australia, gender, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, Macmillan 2010 In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved into a more ambitious bid […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
via Africa is a Country Promised Land Trailer from Yoruba Richen on Vimeo.
Filed under: law, media, Political developments, Southern Africa, Sovereignty | Closed
Gelya Frank and Carole Goldberg, Defying the Odds: The Tule River Tribe’s Struggle for Sovereignty, Yale University Press, 2010. via Turtletalk An anthropologist and a legal scholar combine expertise in this innovative book, deploying the history of one California tribe—the Tule River Tribe—in a definitive study of indigenous sovereignty from earliest contact through the current […]
Filed under: law, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
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