Abstract: This paper investigates how majority societies’ common ignorance about Indigenous peoples and ongoing settler-colonial reality (“settler ignorance”) has been negotiated in the educational sciences literature. Understanding settler ignorance not as a simple “lack of knowledge” but a powerful issue undermining Indigenous rights and decolonial aspirations, this review sets out to gain new understanding of […]

Excerpt: Two recently published and thoroughly researched books shed new light on the significance of Pierre Bourdieu’s Algerian studies. In Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle (2024), Amín Pérez presents an in-depth account of the collaboration between Bourdieu and Sayad. Drawing on unpublished correspondence and other archival material, he vividly details […]

Abstract: In 2023, voters across Australia resoundingly rejected the Constitutional institution of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Among several claims made by vote no campaigners against this institution, a text published in the 1980s by the notorious extreme right organization, The Australian League of Rights, surfaced. The central claim of this text, titled Red Over […]

Abstract: Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone’s 2020 report on the Morrill Act of 1862 tied the founding and funding of “land-grab” universities, including several institutions key to the development of medieval studies in the United States, to the forceful dispossession of Indigenous peoples. When this history of active policies of Indigenous displacement, genocidal campaigns, and […]

Excerpt: In virtually every example of modern settler colonialism, settlers have unsurprisingly been the staunchest defenders of the unequal colonial order, whether in the form of segregation, harsh punitive laws or even genocidal militia warfare against colonized peoples. Settler lobbies often fiercely resisted humanitarian reforms issued by the metropole and resented other metropolitan interference in […]

Abstract: Although it differs from other Australian and New Zealand libraries’ rare books collections in several ways, the Emmerson Collection is only the most recent private collection of early modern English books to find a home in a public library in a British settler colony in the South Pacific. In this article, we consider the […]

Abstract: This article examines the legacies of racism and settler colonialism in contemporary Chile by examining political discourses in the context of the country’s failed Constitutional reform process. We analyze newspaper articles during the period of the first progressive and the second conservative constitutional projects, which were both rejected in popular referendums in 2022 and […]

Abstract: This graduate thesis involves a retelling of the history of the now defunct Canton Insane Asylum, built in the early 20th century located in Canton, South Dakota. It was America’s first federal psychiatric facility dedicated exclusively for American Indians. The Canton Insane Asylum for American Indians is a touchstone whose microhistory reflects larger political […]

Excerpt: The transmission of food culture is a long, slow, organic process, an immersive experiential learning communicated across generations and across frontiers, with ruptures due to emigration, war, and displacement. The contributions to this second special edition of the Jerusalem Quarterly devoted to Palestinian food and foodways draw attention to the role of women, men, […]

Abstract: Indiana Magazine of History assistant editor Justin Hawkins examines the transformations in how the IMH has covered Indigenous history from its 1905 founding until the current one-hundred-and-twentieth volume. During its first six decades of publication, the journal evolved from an open celebration of Native American Removal to a silent marginalization of Indigenous history. In […]