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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- A settler’s dream (i.e., deporting indigenous people): Helen Davidson, ‘Citizenship test: court to decide whether Indigenous people can be deported from Australia’, Guardian, 04/12/19
- Minecraft is a settler-colonial game: Bennett Brazelton, ‘On the 10-year anniversary of minecraft: two interventions in extractive colonialism’, Cultural Geographies, 2019
- The ‘settler-not’: Tryon P. Woods, ‘Marronage, Here and There: Liberia, Enslavement’s Conversion, and the Settler-Not’, International Labor and Working Class History, 96, 2019, pp. 38-59
- The archaeology of settlers: Alfredo González-Ruibal, ‘Ethical Issues in Indigenous Archaeology: Problems with Difference and Collaboration’, Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2, 3, 2019, pp. 34-43
- Criminal by design: Emma Rose Kauffman, After this, Therefore, Because of This: Refusing Settler Immunity & Abolishing Indigenous Criminality, MA dissertation, University of Alberta
- You can’t build an indigenous state under settler colonialism: S. Abdel Latif, The EU and Palestine: The Role of EU Financial Aid in Statebuilding in Palestine, PhD dissertation, University of Exeter, 2019
- Terrapolitics under settler colonialism: Christine Delucia, ‘Terrapolitics in the Dawnland: Relationality, Resistance, and Indigenous Futures in the Native and Colonial Northeast’, The New England Quarterly, XCII, 4, 2019, pp. 548-583
- The ruins of settlerism? Antonia Malan, ‘Archaeology of Colonial Settlement at the Cape’, Oxford Research Encyclopedias (African History), 2019
- What is to be done? Irene Bellier, Jennifer Hays (eds), Scales of Governance and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, Routledge, 2019
- Settlers are good, anxious, racist people: Lisa Slater, ‘Good White People: Settler Colonial Anxiety and the Endurance of Racism’, Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 3, 2, 2019, pp. 266–281
- Settlers need expanses (they manufacture them): Kristen Simmons, ‘Expanse’, Journal for the Anthropology of North America, 22, 2, 2019, pp. 103-105
- The settler home is mobile: Nicholas Shapiro, ‘Manufacturing Home’, Journal for the Anthropology of North America, 22, 2, 2019, pp. 121-124
- Indigenous women rights are the end of settler colonialism: Talia Yousef, Settler-Colonialism and Indigenous Women’s Rights: A Comparative Analysis of the Socioeconomic Impact endured by Indigenous women within ‘Canada’, and Indigenous Palestinian women within ‘Israel’, MA dissertation, Carleton University, 2019
- Why forgive? Sam Grey, ‘Returning to the Source: Revisiting Arendtian Forgiveness in the Politics of Reconciliation’, Theoria, 66, 161, 2019, pp. 37-65
- Settlers tell even more stories: Edward Guimont, From King Solomon to Ian Smith: Rhodesian Alternate Histories of Zimbabwe, PhD dissertation, University of Connecticut, 2019
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