Description: Critical Perspectives on White Supremacy and Racism in Canadian Education shows how K-12 schooling continues to produce and maintain white supremacist and colonial logics and questions the alternate future of schooling in Canada. It argues that white supremacy and race in schooling are present in colonial-centered approaches to teacher education, formal and informal exclusion through […]

Description: Analyzes favela, quilombola, and indigenous communities’ responses to settler colonialism in urban Brazil. Based on ethnographic research and her experiences growing up in Brazil, the author tells the stories of communities in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Belo Horizonte. Unsettling Brazil offers a powerful account of five urban Indigenous and Black communities and movements […]

Abstract: Jodi A. Byrd and Joseph M. Pierce discuss the Supreme Court decisions Dobbs v. Jackson and Haaland v. Brackeen, which upheld the legality of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act. In this wide-ranging conversation, the authors reflect on “what Indigenous studies and queer studies can bring together,” considering Indigenous dispossession, kinship, settler colonialism, sovereignty, and reciprocity, among […]

Abstract: Despite Robert M. Campbell’s assertion that “an examination of contemporary postal matters would reveal much about the Canadian state” (Campbell, 1994, p. 6), the interest in postal history from social scientists has been short-lived. In Canada, this loss of interest coincided with the efforts to privatize Canada Post through the late 1980s–1990s (e.g., Campbell, […]

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 […]

Abstract: What justifies plenary powers over Native nations, U.S. territories, and overseas colonies? One answer is the text of the Constitution: the Indian Commerce Clause or the Territorial Clause. Another answer is sovereignty under international law. In this Article, I argue that these legalistic explanations overlook a third answer: that political and judicial actors justified […]

Excerpt: For those Low-German speaking Mennonites who sought to live apart from the world and historically resisted conscription, national schooling, and political par-ticipation, David S. Koffman’s “audacious” question was frequent and fraught across centuries of diasporic mobility. In the 1870s, facing compulsory military service in the Russian Empire, Mennonite delegations traveled to the United States […]

Abstract: The dynamics of settler colonialism are intriguing areas of enquiry with contesting geo-political variables to consider. The objective of this article is to address the complexity of settlers and the settler landscapes in the occupied territories of Israel through a literary analysis of the novel The Hilltop written by the Israeli author Assaf Gavron. The novel […]

Abstract: The process of democratic transition in Palestine faced many repercussions that negatively affected it, and perhaps the most important of these repercussions is the Israeli settlement, which caused destructive effects on the components of the Palestinian democratic process, through the dimensions behind the settlement project as the Israeli settlement was not limited to confiscating land. […]

Abstract: The study examines how members of the historically white possessive and supremacist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United States (mis)appropriated Māori genealogy, known as whakapapa. The Mormon use of whakapapa to promote Mormon cultural memory and narratives perpetuates settler/invader colonialism and white supremacy, as this paper shows. The research discusses […]