by t-9kergo | Aug 17, 2022 | Events, RDI Inaugural Colloquium: At the Intersection of Indigeneity and Race
Title: The Murderable Indian: Terror as State (In)Security Abstract: In Red Scare: The Empire’s Indigenous Terrorist, Barker argues that Indigenous peoples are identified and identifiable as terrorists by the state in the service of the state’s imperialist goals. In...
by t-9kergo | Aug 16, 2022 | Events
Presentation of Abdellali Hajjat’s, The Wretched of France; The 1983 March for Equality and Against Racism. The publisher’s blurb summarizes it well: “In 1983—as France struggled with race-based crimes, police brutality, and public unrest—youth from Vénissieux (a...
by t-9kergo | Aug 15, 2022 | Events, RDI Inaugural Colloquium: At the Intersection of Indigeneity and Race
Title: Homesteading and the American Dream Description: This chapter, the second chapter of my book manuscript, recounts how the American Dream—the pursuit of property ownership and a home of one’s own—blossomed through the long and unbroken history of the...
by t-9kergo | Aug 14, 2022 | Events, RDI Inaugural Colloquium: At the Intersection of Indigeneity and Race
Title: “The Necessity of the Future” Description: This work in progress reads Fukuyama’s End of History in the context of an “international 1992,” including the coup in Haiti, the LA uprising, commemorations of the Columbian invasion, the...
by t-9kergo | Aug 13, 2022 | Events, RDI Inaugural Colloquium: At the Intersection of Indigeneity and Race
This panel, “Indigenous Studies and Black Studies: New Directions,” assembles leading scholars of Black and Indigenous solidarities, intimacies, and frictions. (Shanya Cordis, Khalil Johnson, Chad Infante) Resisting a tendency to reduce this relation to...
