All tagged colonialism
The four monographs that I review here—by scholars in fields as diverse as history, Asian American studies, and postcolonial literary studies—speak to the durable historical, cultural, and discursive links between Black and Indigenous peoples in the Americas and South Asians, in resistance to Anglo-American imperial collaborations.
The film commodifies alternative politics for mass consumption and profit while also prying open a representational outside to our current colonial reality. It holds in tension the contradiction of feminist, anti-colonial Wakanda with the narrative form of masculine superhero origin story in a massively profitable franchise, pushing at the potential and limits of what can be imagined as alternative.
Firearms are the tools and symbols of a larger counterrevolutionary policing that binds settlers together despite contradictions of class in their mutual support of upholding colonial and racial hierarchies. Through gun ownership of today—what was, earlier, participation in militias—the white settler defends the state that in turn ensures his sovereignty and superiority.
