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Afraid? Aziz Rana, ‘Who’s Afraid of “Settler Colonialism”?’ Dissent, 72, 3, 2025, pp. 79-93

22Sep25

Excerpt: A defining hallmark of the second trump administration has been the extremity of the violence and threats it has directed at immigrants, especially those that are brown and Black. Masked agents in unmarked cars grab work-ers, parents, and students off the streets. Noncitizens languish in detention for purely political speech, while others are forcibly removed to maximum security prisons overseas or to “third countries” in secretive arrangements. Government videos revel in cruelty toward the growing numbers effectively disappeared.

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    • Humouring settler colonialism: Derek Hilligoss, The Rhetoric of Gallows Humor: The Settler Colonial Unconscious in Reservation Dogs, PhD dissertation, University of Kansas, 2026
    • Sovereignty is an unequal relation: Amy Swiffen, ‘Contesting sovereignty: Indigenous legal and political responses to settler colonialism in Canada’, in Marinos Diamantides, Michel Rosenfeld, Giuseppe Martinico (eds), Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Sovereignty, Elgar Online, 2026, pp. 95-112
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    • Still Indigenous: Freddy Cabral, We are Still Lipan: Identity Erasure, Settler Colonialism, Historical Memory and the Persistence of the Non-Reservation Lipan Apache, PhD dissertation, The University of Texas at El Paso, 2026
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