Abstract: There is growing scholarly and public attention toward the stark racial disparities in birth outcomes in the US. To lower disparate rates of Indigenous and Black infant mortality rates and maternal mortality rates, public and elected officials have proposed extending comprehensive prenatal care and medical resources and addressing racial biases in healthcare delivery. These […]

Excerpt: This fantasy of belonging is a motif in a number of archetypic explorer narratives. The explorer’s heroic death in conflict, either with Indigenous people or the hostile landscape, transforms him into a sacrificial Aeneas whose death atones for colonial transgression and contributes to an authentic sense of settler dwelling. 

Abstract: There is abundant evidence on the over-representation of Indigenous peoples in Canadian correctional facilities but, there is, however, limited research on the over-representation of Indigenous peoples at other stages of the criminal justice system. This article examines self-reported contacts with the police by Indigenous peoples in Canada as a way of to broaden our […]

Abstract: The Pākehā (settler) writing that flourished in New Zealand in the middle decades of the twentieth century is often seen as an attempt to ground settler culture in the precolonial earth. Produced at a time when erosion was seen as a pressing national and global environmental crisis, however, this essay argues New Zealand literary […]

Abstract: Administrative detention, a form of non-judicial incarceration, was a powerful tool of settler colonialism. Administrative detention enables governments to incarcerate whole categories of people, often indefinitely and under unregulated conditions, to manage perceived threats to national identity, integrity, or security. In Australia, various forms of administrative detention have been implemented almost continuously since British […]

Abstract: This article contributes to the history of settler colonial relations in early New England by revealing previously missed allusions in Thomas Morton’s May Day poem. I uncover references to Captain Robert Gorges and the Council for New England that provide new information about the colonial history of Massachusetts from 1624 to 1627. I also […]

Excerpt: The government of Taiwan (the ROC) recently unveiled an ambitious campaign to establish Mandarin–English bilingualism by 2030. The impetus for the rapid advancement of English has been articulated within the discursive framework of neoliberal competition. The National Development Council (NDC), which heads the campaign, explains that the primary objectives of the “Bilingual Nation” policy […]

Abstract: This article explains how the US westward expansion influenced and stimulated Japanese migration to Brazil. Emerging in the nineteenth century as expanding powers in East Asia and Latin America, respectively, both Meiji Japan and post-independence Brazil looked to the US westward expansion as a central reference for their own processes of settler colonialism. The […]

Abstract: Indigenous resurgence movements in states like Canada and the U.S. have challenged immigrant and settler groups to confront their presence on colonized lands, and transform their relations with land and with Indigenous peoples. Part of this process of re-evaluation entails immigrant groups within the national order considering the ways in which they become implicated […]

Abstrcat: This chapter critically examines the Passaconaway Monument erected in 1899 by the Passaconaway Tribe of the Improved Order of Red Men (IORM) in the Edson Cemetery in the city of Lowell, Massachusetts. In considering public monuments, one must ask which publics are involved in both production and consumption. While the general consuming public may […]