Abstract: The microelement composition of lunar soil was evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively, and its potential hazard to health of future Moon settlers was analyzed. Regoliths from four lunar regions were tested for chemical composition, and element contents were compared with terrestrial soil clarkes. The regolith samples examined in the study were collected in mare regions […]

Abstract: This chapter examines the intersections and distinctions between the fields of critical race studies and critical Indigenous studies regarding the study of Shakespeare’s works. In recent decades critics have become increasingly aware of the issue of race within Shakespeare studies and have also explored the place of colonialism within the same context, but what […]

Abstract: This thesis investigates the role of police and prisons in the reproduction of a violent, settler- colonial state order. The scope of police being examined pertains to all police forces in Canada, including city police and the RCMP. It asserts that proposals for reform in response to issues of police violence against Indigenous peoples […]

Description: Critical Perspectives on White Supremacy and Racism in Canadian Education shows how K-12 schooling continues to produce and maintain white supremacist and colonial logics and questions the alternate future of schooling in Canada. It argues that white supremacy and race in schooling are present in colonial-centered approaches to teacher education, formal and informal exclusion through […]

Description: Analyzes favela, quilombola, and indigenous communities’ responses to settler colonialism in urban Brazil. Based on ethnographic research and her experiences growing up in Brazil, the author tells the stories of communities in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Belo Horizonte. Unsettling Brazil offers a powerful account of five urban Indigenous and Black communities and movements […]

Abstract: Jodi A. Byrd and Joseph M. Pierce discuss the Supreme Court decisions Dobbs v. Jackson and Haaland v. Brackeen, which upheld the legality of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act. In this wide-ranging conversation, the authors reflect on “what Indigenous studies and queer studies can bring together,” considering Indigenous dispossession, kinship, settler colonialism, sovereignty, and reciprocity, among […]

Abstract: Despite Robert M. Campbell’s assertion that “an examination of contemporary postal matters would reveal much about the Canadian state” (Campbell, 1994, p. 6), the interest in postal history from social scientists has been short-lived. In Canada, this loss of interest coincided with the efforts to privatize Canada Post through the late 1980s–1990s (e.g., Campbell, […]

Abstract: Following the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, this article examines the manifesto written by the perpetrator, Patrick Crusius. I use critical discourse analysis to reveal some of the racial contours of white nationalist protestation, which I connect to the erasure of indigeneity by settler colonialism. I also use a moral, economic framework […]

Abstract: What justifies plenary powers over Native nations, U.S. territories, and overseas colonies? One answer is the text of the Constitution: the Indian Commerce Clause or the Territorial Clause. Another answer is sovereignty under international law. In this Article, I argue that these legalistic explanations overlook a third answer: that political and judicial actors justified […]

Excerpt: For those Low-German speaking Mennonites who sought to live apart from the world and historically resisted conscription, national schooling, and political par-ticipation, David S. Koffman’s “audacious” question was frequent and fraught across centuries of diasporic mobility. In the 1870s, facing compulsory military service in the Russian Empire, Mennonite delegations traveled to the United States […]