Abstract: Although historians and political scientists have long acknowledged the significant place of immigrants in American political history, the role of “alien suffrage” has not been well appreciated, and gaps remain in the scholarship about the nature of its practice. How extensively was “alien voting” practiced and what were its effects? This study addresses these […]

Abstract: This article offers a critical engagement with Billy Griffiths’s award-winning book Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia as a departure point towards uncovering and examining a significant tradition of Australian cultural reflection and interpretation it terms, following Anthony Moran, indigenising settler nationalism. Tracing the genealogy of the indigenising settler-nationalist tendencies that shape Deep Time Dreaming, and to […]

Abstract: This essay contributes to literature on the intersections of white settler colonialisms, racial capitalism, and U.S.-Mexico borderlands history by tracing the web of spatial, temporal, and legal power relations that produced El Paso, Texas’ seemingly legitimate possession of stolen Mexican territory known as “El Chamizal” in the El Paso-Cd. Juárez borderlands. This land theft […]

Abstract: This chapter traces the development of theorizing race beginning with/in community curricula that showed how race was lived and experienced. It then follows the displacement of this knowledge to a predominantly white space where race was learned in “contrast”, and, ultimately, how living and learning in a red state amidst the rise of white […]

Abstract: This article is about an ownership dispute between two Palestinian families in the West Bank. The dispute moves between Palestinian and Israeli forums while drawing upon the legal patchwork of Ottoman, British, and Jordanian land laws, and Israeli military amendments. The multilayered legal terrain coupled with the jurisdictional tension allowed some legal maneuvering. The […]

Excerpt: Gertrude Bonnin (Yankton Dakota), also known by her penname Zitkala-Ša, grabbed non-Native readers’ attention with her semi-autobiographical trilogy published in The Atlantic Monthly in January, February, and March 1900. As a graduate of White’s Manual Labor School, and as a teacher at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Zitkala-Ša wrote what was not expected of her. Perhaps, or even […]

Abstract: In this essay I develop a relational analysis placing Asian and Latin American racial discourses into conversation. My analysis here seeks to grasp with greater clarity the discrepant ways that Blackness, Indigeneity, and Asian identities are articulated in distinctly and distantly elaborated nation-building projects through mestizaje—a Philippine mestizaje and one originating in Mexico. I move us […]

Abstract: In this short piece, we discuss the importance of reverie, a psychoanalytic concept, but also, a central logic in sumud. Using direct testimony from Palestinians in Gaza and freed political prisoners, we conceptualize how reverie affirms Palestinian life, willfulness, and resistance against the backdrop of settler colonial violence and, currently, active genocide. 

Abstract: This article analyses settler encroachment on Indigenous peoples’ lands in the Chaco region of Eastern Bolivia. It is an understudied story, rarely interpreted from a perspective inspired by settler colonial studies. My analysis explores policies promoted by the emerging Bolivian state to address its ‘Toba problem’ along the Pilcomayo River, where for three centuries […]

Abstract: The Indigenous Youth Mountain Bike Program (IYMBP) is a non-profit society with the mandate to bring Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders, community members, and youth together to build mountain bike trails and foster reconciliation through the sport of mountain biking. In this chapter, we reflect on some activities of the IYMBP and in particular, its […]