« Settler colonial rationales, colonial rationales and their convergence: Alvin Padilla-Babilonia, ‘Sovereignty and Dependence in the American Empire: Native Nations, Territories, and Overseas Colonies’, Duke Law Journal, 73, 2024, pp. 943-1035
Settlers going postal: Miranda Leibel, Justin Leifso, ‘”The heart that pumps the blood through the veins and arteries of our national life”: Canadian postal services as settler-colonial infrastructure’, Political Geography, 109, 2024, #103063 »

Settler colonial mass murder: Hector Amaya, ‘White supremacy, settler angst, and Latine immigration to the US’, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 2024

28Jan24

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 to discuss Crusius and other white nationalists’ deployment of affective structures to justify their violent actions. This unconventional nature of the mass shooting, which resulted in the killing of 23 primarily Mexican and Mexican American individuals, was based on rather ordinary arguments about white erasure, the fear of invasion, and anger over economic and environmental concerns. This was overall a cocktail of reasons and sentiments that Crusius used to justify lethal violence against brown bodies associated with indigeneity.


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