Indigenous economies are shaped by racial capitalism and settler colonialism: Shiri Pasternak, ‘Assimilation and Partition: How Settler Colonialism and Racial Capitalism Co-produce the Borders of Indigenous Economies’, The South Atlantic Quarterly, 119, 2, 2020, pp. 301-324 | settler colonial studies blog

Indigenous economies are shaped by racial capitalism and settler colonialism: Shiri Pasternak, ‘Assimilation and Partition: How Settler Colonialism and Racial Capitalism Co-produce the Borders of Indigenous Economies’, The South Atlantic Quarterly, 119, 2, 2020, pp. 301-324

22Apr20

Excerpt: The history of colonialism in Canada has meant both the partition of Indigenous peoples from participating (physically, politically, legally) in the economy and a relentless demand to become assimilated as liberal capitalist citizens. Assimilation and segregation are both tendencies of colonization that protect the interests of white capital. But their respective prevalence seems to depend on the regime of racial capitalism at play.

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