« Policing the settler order in French Algeria: Samuel Kalman, Law, Order, and Empire: Policing and Crime in Colonial Algeria, 1870–1954, Cornell University Press, 2024

Against Mestizo settler colonialism: Ashley Ngozi Agbasoga, ‘Against Mestizaje: Articulations Towards a Black/Indigenous Sense of Place in Mexico’, Antipode, 2025

26Dec25

Abstract: In this paper, I sit with the different modes of relation that Black, Indigenous, and Black/Indigenous/Afro-Indigenous women have to community, to each other, and to land and sea. In particular, I demonstrate the ways in which Black, Indigenous, and Black/Indigenous women contend, refuse, and negotiate racialised identifiers on their own terms, extending beyond Mexico’s rubrics of inclusion and exclusion. I ask: How does one insist on existence, and do so on your and your community’s own terms? What does it mean to be inseparable from the land and water that your community inhabits? I weave together Black and Indigenous feminist thought, with an analysis of language use, to unsettle hegemonic mestizo understandings of place, racial and state formation in the land known as Mexico and beyond.


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