Archive for November, 2010
Judy Rohrer, Haoles in Hawaii (University of Hawai’i Press: Honolulu 2010) Haoles in Hawai‘i strives to make sense of haole (white person/whiteness in Hawai‘i) and “the politics of haole” in current debates about race in Hawai‘i. Recognizing it as a form of American whiteness specific to Hawai‘i, the author argues that haole was forged and […]
Filed under: Hawaii, Scholarship and insights | Closed
P. G. McHugh, ‘Sovereignty in Australasia: Comparatively Different Histories’, Legal History 13 (2009) No abstract; snipping here: The historiography of the Neglected Tribal Sovereigns and Missed Opportunity seeks to put Australian history onto an axis of what I will be calling competitive autonomies. This, as I explain below, is a history of the sovereign-self narrated […]
Filed under: Australia, law, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty | Closed
Robert Foster and Amanda Nettelbeck, ‘THE RULE OF LAW ON THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FRONTIER’, Legal History 13 (2009): In the 1830s the British Colonial Office insisted that Aboriginal people be regarded as British Subjects in the hope that the ‘rule of law’ would provide them with protection against the excesses of the settlers. This paper […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Margaret D. Jacobs, ‘Getting Out of a Rut: Decolonizing Western Women’s History’, Pacific Historical Review 79, 4 (2010). For over three decades, western women’s historians have been working not just to challenge male biases within western history scholarship but also to create a more multicultural inclusive narrative. Paradoxically, however, the overarching narrative of western women’s […]
Filed under: gender, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Rima Wilkes, Catherine Corrigall-Brown and Daniel J. Myers, ‘Packaging Protest: Media Coverage of Indigenous People’s Collective Action’, Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie 47, 4 (2010). Les personnes autochtones au Canada se sont lancées dans des centaines d’actions collectives. Utilisant la littérature sur les nouvelles et sur les événements collectifs, nous examinons d’une façon […]
Filed under: Canada, media, Scholarship and insights | Closed
A whole archive of this stuff here (‘the old west is a time and a place of heart’) which I stumbled across courtesy of Unauthorised History
Filed under: United States, wacky | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 