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Whose Home? Whose Rule?

Nandita Sharma’s Home Rule and the politics of autochthony

May 21, 2020 • by Mat Cusick

Nandita Sharma, Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (Duke University Press: 2020) In February 2002, five months after Narendra Modi became chief minister of Gujarat, an anti-Muslim pogrom erupted in his state. In three months of violence, Hindu nationalist rioters raped and murdered hundreds of Muslim ...

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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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What Must Be Done With Sovereignty?

Rejecting Recognition and the Ruse of Participation

September 7, 2018 • by Sandra Harvey

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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Sovereign (In)capacity

Possibilities of Black and Indigenous Futures

September 6, 2018 • by Shanya Cordis

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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We Will Not Abandon You

Urban Indigenous Youth and the Struggle for Decolonization

September 5, 2018 • by Melanie Yazzie

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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Resistance and Resurgence of the Métis

The red that dies the maple leaf

June 1, 2016 • by Wayne Wapeemukwa

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. On April 14, 2016, Grandma emailed me; the subject read: “Status.” That day, in Daniels vs. Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada legally granted Indian status to all non-status Indians and Métis. Grandma is not Métis, but I am. ...

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Autonomous Politics and Liberal Thought-Magic

In response to Nancy Fraser

February 3, 2014 • by Nick Montgomery

Anarchism is often dismissed as incoherent, naïve, and ineffective. This is Nancy Fraser’s position in a recent article called "Against Anarchism." Fraser’s criticisms are worth engaging not because they’re particularly perceptive or unique, but because they’re exceedingly common: these are some of the reasons that people dismiss anarchism all ...

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