Following a crucial debate about the limits of indigeneity in a settler society (when compared to other impostures): on why Rachel Dolezal’s claim on Blackness was intolerable while similarly unfounded claims on Indigeneity are more acceptable (as the former challenges the ‘one drop rule’ and the latter confirms indigenous inherent replaceability, both reactions actually confirm settler colonialism as a specific mode of domination)
02Jul15
1) Tequila Sovereign’s astute questioning, 30/06/15.
2) The Daily Beast‘s ‘scoop‘, 30/06/15.
3) Moontime Warrior’s resonable response, 01/07/15.
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- Kinship as an introduction to Ineigeneity? Rene M. Ramirez, Kinship: Settler Families and Indigenous Communities, PhD dissertation, Loyola University, 2026
- Settlers have only one future: Jess Maginity, Prophesy and Propaganda: Rational and Relational Epistemologies in Right-Wing and Anishinaabe Science Fiction, PhD dissertation, University of Delaware, 2026
- Dilapidated settler structures: Madeleine J. S. Léger, Vicious Dilapidation: On Crumbling Settler Places in the Maritimes, PhD dissertation, Georgetown University, 2026
- AI targets Indigenous peoples: M. S. Khan, Y. El-Lahib, A. Al Ashoor, ‘AI and Medical Colonialism: Complicities, Tensions, and Contradictions’, in C. El Morr, A. Saab, E. Salem Sokhn (eds), AI for Epidemic Preparedness, Springer, 2026, pp. 483-498
- Consent and consultation against settler colonialism: Priscylla Joca, Rebeca Macias Gimenez, ‘Learning about Democracy through Disputes over the Meaning of Indigenous Consent and Consultation’, Democratic Theory, 2026
- Tensed settlers: Ryan Tan Wander, Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West, Texas Tech University Press, 2024
- Pottering around with settler colonialism: Martin Crawford, Land and labour: The Potters’ Emigration Society, 1844-51, Manchester University Press, 2024
- Deportation is a form of incarceration: Monisha Das Gupta, ‘Carcerality and Abolition: Settler Politics and Migrant Organizing’, American Quarterly, 78, 3, 2026, pp. 801-825
- Alien frontiers: Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Neda Atanasoski, ‘Unsettling Alien Land’, American Quarterly, 78, 3, 2026, pp. 677-703
- Indigenous borderlands against settler borderlands (introducing a special issue): Amrah Salomón J., Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Susy J. Zepeda, ‘Indigenous Borderlands: Indian Again, the Return of Land and People’, American Quarterly, 78, 3, 2026, pp. 467-491
- Measuring settler colonial discrimination: Jun Xu, Fang Gong, Donghui Wang, ‘The Subtle Burden: Everyday Discrimination and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Self-Rated Health and Happiness in the United States’, Race and Social Problems, 18, 2026, #54
- Violence and settlers: Daniel Gargya, Alexandre Marhic, ‘Settler Violence in the West-Bank: Domestic and International Accountability Mechanisms’, MENA Consortium, 24, 2026
- Proximity is a problem for settlers: Antti Tarvainen, ‘Settler Colonial City Makes Innovation Urbanism: Toward a Global Critique of “Proximity” in Startup Jerusalem’, Antipode, 2026
- The settlers’ plan (it is by design): Margaret Ellis-Young, ‘Foundational But Also “Beyond the Scope”? Planners’ Reflections on Land Use Planning as a Space for Indigenous-Settler Reconciliation in Two Canadian Cities’, Planning Theory & Practice, 2026
- German settlers, far far away: María Teresa Douzet-Carafi, Javier Hernández, Félix Rojo-Mendoza, Javiera Castro-Pacheco, ‘State, Colonization, and Elites: The Case of Germans in Araucanía, Chile (1880–1925)’, Sociology Lens, 2026
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