Archive for the ‘United States’ Category
pigeon’s egg head
George Catlin, Pigeon’s Egg Head: Going to and Returning from Washington, 1837-9. Oil. Held at Smithsonian American Art Museum, where else – Washington. Teaching resource here.
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council rock
A block print by Joseph Donnelly, photographed recently by Lisa Ann-Ishihara, via Youngstown News.
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zunguzungu
It took me a long time to realize that the difference between settler colonialism and franchise/metropolitan/regular-old colonialism was the hinge for what I’m trying to do with the relationship between the United States and Kenya in my dissertation. In a very complicated way, of course; the problem with Kenya settlers is that they thought they […]
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Corinn Columpar, Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010): Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film examines the politics of representing Aboriginality, in the process bringing frequently marginalized voices and visions, issues and debates into the limelight. Corinn Columpar uses film theory, postcolonial theory, and Indigenous theory to frame her […]
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Libby Porter, Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning (Farnham/Burlington: Ashgate, 2010). Colonialization has never failed to provoke discussion and debate over its territorial, economic and political projects, and their ongoing consequences. This work argues that the state-based activity of planning was integral to these projects in conceptualizing, shaping and managing place in settler societies. Planning […]
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The white man systematically destroyed Indian culture where it existed, but separated blacks from his midst so that they were forced to attempt the creation of their own culture Vine Deloria Jnr., Custer Died for your Sins (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988 [1969]).
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settler vs indians board game
Yet another game with settler colonial theme. While the post-Orientalism settler world has slowly moved towards the non-trivialisation of indigenous culture in the grown-up realms of culture, it seems that kids are considered okay targets for this continuing sort of nonsense. Eric Tucker, ‘Settler vs. Indians board game rankles tribes’, associated press: One player wins […]
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p is for pilgrim
Love this. Buy it for your kids.
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Margaret D. Jacobs, White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940, Univeristy of Nebraska Press, 2009. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state […]
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Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, Macmillan 2010 In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved into a more ambitious bid […]
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