kids’ book: ‘you wouldn’t want to be an american colonist’
14Jan12
From the blurb:
Are you ready to leave behind your home in England and risk your life in the name of exploration? You will have to face starvation and angry natives if you are going to set up a colony.
Check out the mixed reviews on amazon here, and for the sequel (You wouldn’t want to be an American Pioneer), here.
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- Fantasies of ‘reverse colonisation’ are about settler colonialism: Stuart Ward, ‘”Regular White man”: Reveries of reverse colonization’, in Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, Jennifer Sutton (eds), Global white nationalism, Manchester University Press, 2020
- A double negation: Mahmood Mamdani, Neither Settler nor Native, Harvard University Press, 2020
- Refugees into settlers: Christina Juhász-Wood, Contesting Historical Enhancement: Militarized Settler Colonialism and Refugee Resettlement in New Mexico, PhD Dissertation, University of New Mexico, 2020
- We are NOT in this together: Laura Finley, ‘COVID-19, Colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples’, PJSA, 2020
- Mining under settler colonialism: Jennifer Jones, Confronting Settler Colonialism When Assessing the Impact of Mining on Indigenous Peoples’ Health and Well-Being, PhD dissertation, University of Guelph, 2020
- Self-determination is history: Laura Rademaker, Tim Rowse (eds), Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia: Histories and Historiography, ANU Press, 2020
- Settlers are military civilian hybrids: Mohamed Adhikari, ‘”We will utterly destroy them… and we will go in and possess the land”: reflections on the role of civilian-driven violence in the making of settler genocides’, Acta Academica, 52, 1, 2020, pp. 142-164
- One colony after the other: Jane Lydon, ‘A Secret Longing for a Trade in Human Flesh: the Decline of British Slavery and the Making of the Settler Colonies’, History Workshop Journal, 2020
- Chasing the settlers: Aileen Friesen, ‘Omsk bishops and spiritualized travel amidst settler colonization of Siberia, 1890–1917’, Canadian Slavonic Papers, 2020
- Indigenous labour and settler colonialism: Chantal Norrgard, ‘Indigenous Labor, Settler Colonialism, and the History of the Fraser River Fishermen’s Strike of 1893’, Native American and Indigenous Studies, 7, 2, 2020, pp. 114-144
- The city as settler: Janice Barry, Julian Agyeman, ‘On belonging and becoming in the settler-colonial city: Co-produced futurities, placemaking, and urban planning in the United States’, Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City, 2020
- Settler colonialism as an infinite pause: John Connell, Robert Aldrich, ‘New Caledonia: The Infinite Pause? In John Connell, Robert Aldrich, The Ends of Empire: The Last Colonies Revisited, Palgrave, 2020, pp. 195-225
- Settler colonialism and urban space: Jessica Ty Miller, ‘Temporal analysis of displacement: Racial capitalism and settler colonial urban space’, Geoforum, 2020
- Capitalism and colonization: Edwyna Harris, Sumner La Croix, ‘Understanding the Gains to Capitalists from Colonization: Lessons from Robert E. Lucas, Jr., Karl Marx and Edward Gibbon Wakefield’, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa Department of Economics Working Paper Series, 20-23, 2020
- Misbehaving settlers: Emanuele Ertola, ‘”White slaves”: labor, whiteness, and settler colonialism in Italian East Africa (1935-1941), Labor History, 2020
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