An interview with Shannon Speed on settler colonialism and Latin American Studies: Lynn Stephen, Settler colonialism in Latin American and Native studies’, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 2022 | settler colonial studies blog

An interview with Shannon Speed on settler colonialism and Latin American Studies: Lynn Stephen, Settler colonialism in Latin American and Native studies’, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 2022

05Sep22

Excerpt: ‘Well, as you know, it has been a lifelong or career-long preoccupation of mine as a citizen of a Native nation located in what we currently call the United States to do academic and political work in what we now refer to as Latin America. I have long been frustrated by the lack of engagement between Indigenous scholars north and south of the US-Mexico border, which, of course, is a settler-imposed distinction and one that we too often reify with our scholarly work‘.

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