Jaskiran Dhillon, Author at Public Seminar

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A Shared Commitment

Concluding thoughts on, ‘Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention’

September 10, 2018 • by Jaskiran Dhillon

Race/isms Book Forum is a new series aimed at bringing established and emerging voices together in conversation around recent work that critically engages our world’s racial scripts, past and present. The structure of the forum is straightforward. We invite three to four thinkers to grapple with a book, highlighting a ...

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Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention

Race/isms Book Forum

September 4, 2018 • by Jaskiran Dhillon

For our second installment, we feature and discuss Jaskiran Dhillon’s recently published ethnography: Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention. The discussion includes reflections by Melanie Yazzie, Shanya Cordis, and Sandra Harvey. While our contributors address the book as a whole, we begin with an edited excerpt ...

Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention

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The Standing Rock Syllabus Project

On behalf of the New York City Stands with Standing Rock Collective

October 21, 2016 • by Matt Chrisler, Jaskiran Dhillon and Audra Simpson

As Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and organizers who engage in studies of Indigenous life, politics, and education, settler colonialism, and decolonization, we stand in solidarity with the Indigenous struggle to stop the 1,172 mile Dakota Access Pipeline. Projected to transport hydraulically fractured (or “fracked”) natural gas from the Bakken Oil ...

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Support the Standing Rock Sioux

September 6, 2016 • by Jaskiran Dhillon

A version of the attached letter was circulated for signature among faculty at The New School. Dear Friends and Colleagues, I hope this finds all of you well at the semester's start. I am writing to request your signature for a letter I have drafted in support of the Standing Rock Sioux ...