The settler myth of meritocracy: Sheellah McLean, ‘”We Built a Life from Nothing”: White Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Meritocracy’, Our Schools/Our Selves, 2018
03Jan18
Excerpt:
Positioning Myself: Teaching My Family History
White Settlers /Indigenous People
Voting rights / No vote until 1960
Public education / Residential schools
Free Mobility rights / Pass system 1882-1936
Run for public office / No representation
Sell wheat freely / Limits on market
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