« Internationalist settler colonialism: Oleksa Drachewych, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Communist International’, in Immanuel Ness, Zak Cope (eds), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, Palgrave, 2021, pp. 2417-2428
Canadian settler colonialism, then and now: Emily Grafton, Jérôme Melançon, Alyssa Parker, Ibukun Fasunhan (eds), Canadian Settler Colonialism: Reliving the Past, Opening New Paths, University of Regina Press, 2024 »

Forgetful settlers, then and now: Donalyn White, Anthony Ballas, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Engineering of Historical Amnesia’, Counterpunch, 11/07/24

25Aug24

Excerpt: It should come as no surprise to those of us with even a cursory understanding of the history of U.S. imperialism that the once sovereign Kingdom of Hawai’i became the very first state in the nation to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Hawai’i is an occupied nation, and has been since 1893 when the U.S. launched a coup to overthrow the sovereign rule of Queen Liliʻuokalani. We don’t need to dive that far back into historical memory to discover that even this imperialist overthrow was acknowledged by none other than then president Bill Clinton, who, in 1993 (on the centennial of the coup) issued an official apology to the Hawaiian Kingdom—an apology that notably did not include a return of the land to the people of this occupied island nation.


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