Series: Indigenous Americas

In Red Skin, White Masks by Glen Sean Coulthard, readers delve into a poignant and incisive critique of contemporary Indigenous-state relations in North America. Coulthard breaks away from traditional approaches by challenging the dominant concept of "recognition" as a means to achieve decolonisation and sovereignty for Indigenous peoples. Instead, he proposes a revolutionary framework that focuses on self-recognition and the...

The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and culturally constructed as a white possession.

Robert A. Williams Jr. boldly exposes the ongoing legal force of the racist language directed at Indians in American society. Fueled by well-known negative racial stereotypes of Indian savagery and cultural inferiority, this language, Williams contends, has functioned like a loaded weapon in the Supreme Court's Indian law decisions. Beginning with Chief Justice John Marshall's foundational opinions in the early...