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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what’s new
- Nonsettler-colonial settlements: Vanessa Sloan Morgan, Heather Castleden, Huu‐ay‐aht First Nations, ‘”Our Journey, Our Choice, Our Future”: Huu‐ay‐aht First Nations’ Self‐Government enacted through the Maa‐nulth Treaty with British Columbia and Canada’, Antipode, 2019
- Settler-colonial settlements: Andrew Curley, ‘Unsettling Indian Water Settlements: The Little Colorado River, the San Juan River, and Colonial Enclosures’, Antipode, 2019
- ‘If you eat, you are involved in settler colonialism’: “Is eating a settler-colonial act?” – History, justice, and the future of food: Institute for Postcolonial Studies, May 9 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
- Settler-refugees: Susanne Lachenicht, ‘Refugee “nations” and Empire-Building in the Early Modern Period’, Journal of Early Modern Christianity, 2019
- Settler-colonial entanglements: Ronaldo Munck, Pablo Pozzi, ‘Israel, Palestine, and Latin America: Conflictual Relationships’, Latin American Perspectives, 2019
- Settlers and guns: K. T. Thompson,’Stock Histories’, Social Text, 37, 1, 2019, pp. 107-115.
- And now for something completely different: David McCullough, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Simon & Schuster, 2019
- The settler’s wilderness: Jamie Corliss, White wilderness: race, capitalism, and alternative knowledges of natural space, MA dissertation, DePaul University, 2019
- Assimilating the settlers (rather than the other way round): Jennifer Sessions, ‘Making Settlers Muslim: Religion, Resistance and Everday [sic] Life in Nineteenth-Century French Algeria’, French History, 2019
- The settlers against the ocean: Meg Samuelson, Charne Lavery, ‘The Oceanic South’, English Language Notes, 57, 1, 2019, pp. 37-50.
- Settler diasporas: Iyko Day, Juliana Hu Pegues, Melissa Phung, Dean Itsuji Saranillio, Danika Medak-Saltzman’, Settler Colonial Studies, Asian Diasporic Questions’, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 5, 1, 2019, pp. 1-45
- Japanese settlers and their borderless empire: Eiichiro Azuma, In Search of Our Frontier Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire, University of California Press, 2019
- Settler colonialism and murderous Islamophobia: Azeezah Kanji, David Palumbo-Liu, ‘Settler Colonialism Lurked Beneath the Christchurch Massacre’, Truthout, 06/04/19
- Whose remembrances? Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Rob Hales, Sydney Sparrow, ‘Remembering and Forgetting First Nations in Australia: Unsettling the Silence on the Founding and Building of a New Nation’, in Pauline Collins, Victor Igreja, Patrick Alan Danaher (eds), The Nexus among Place, Conflict and Communication in a Globalising World, Palgrave, 2019, pp 207-231
- Decolonising pedagogies: Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang (eds), Indigenous and Decolonising Studies in Education: Mapping the Long View, Routledge, 2019
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