Gendering, Racializing and Classifying: Settler
                    Colonization in the United States, 1590–1990

Janiewski, Dolores

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“…David Pearson (1990: 72), writing in New Zealand, has described Pakeha culture as ‘caught between the twin strengths of other cultures, aboriginal and metropolitan’. Davia Stasiulis and Nira Yuval-Davis (1995: 20) suggest that this hinge position explains the ‘unevenness and fragility’ of these settler identities (also see Hodge and Mishra, 1991). Their point is humorously illustrated by Zealand comedian, Ewan Gilmore, in a newspaper interview in which he is quoted as saying:…”

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“…However, while there is historical research on settler identities in the USA there is little work in the USA on the contemporary impact of that settler/colonial legacy on white American identities . Dolores Janiewski (1995: 132) ascribes this to the belief in American exceptionalism. It is also no doubt related to the precedence that has been given to the legacy of slavery in the USA.…”

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“…2 This literature is primarily based on historical and representational analyses – with anthropology (for example Lattas, 1990; Wolfe, 1994), museum studies (for example, Coombes, 2006) and literary criticism (for example, Goldie, 1989; Hodge and Mishra, 1991; Collingwood-Whittick, 2007) predominating. There has been little sociological analysis of settler identities (although see Stasiulis and Yuval Davis, 1995) and even less based on the empirical data provided by interview research. The primary question behind this paper then is – are the difficulties of settler identities identified in the literature apparent in the talk of ‘ordinary’ settler individuals in New Zealand?…”

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Dilemmas of Settler Belonging: Roots, Routes and Redemption in New Zealand National Identity Claims

Bell¹

2009

The Sociological Review

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This paper explores the identity markers and rules used in the process of national identity construction by young adult New Zealanders, drawing on empirical data from qualitative interviews with members of the majority culture of 'Pakeha' or 'European' New Zealanders. While these young New Zealanders draw on the markers of 'birth', 'blood' and 'belonging' identified in other studies, their claims to identity and belonging are troubled by the settler origins of their ancestors. The dilemmas these origins create for these young New Zealanders are identified along with the strategies they deploy as they seek to resolve them. The existence of these dilemmas suggests that a distinct identity rule is at work for this group that has not previously been identified in earlier studies. Thus, this analysis provides further evidence for the deployment of a common set of markers and rules as well as highlighting some of the ways in which these differ in different national contexts.In any society the dominant national culture is typically unproblematically 'at home'. The nation is first of all theirs and their belonging unquestionable. Within the New Zealand context however, the dominant national culture has settler -migrant and colonizing -origins. Their occupation of the homeland is then not so straightforwardly secured. Others were there before them. As settlers, they claim a national identity, but as Richard Handler (1990: 8) has expressed it, they are 'not the natives of choice' and remain plagued by an 'ontological unease' (Bell, 2006: 254). There is now an extensive literature on the difficulties of the contemporary white settler identities that have developed in the former British colonies of New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa. 2 This literature is primarily based on historical and representational analyses -with anthropology (for example Lattas, 1990;Wolfe, 1994), museum studies (for example, Coombes, 2006) and literary criticism (for example, Goldie, 1989;Hodge and Mishra, 1991;Collingwood-Whittick, 2007) predominating. There has been little sociological analysis of settler identities (although see Stasiulis and Yuval Davis, 1995) and even less based on the empirical data provided by interview research. The primary question behind

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Dilemmas of Settler Belonging: Roots, Routes and Redemption in New Zealand National Identity Claims

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“…The recent scholarly identification of settler colonialism as a distinct social formation, along with scholars’ increasing applications of the construct to the United States (Goldstein 2008; Hoxie 2008; Janiewski 1995), provides the basis for an alternative conception of American Indians and their sociopolitical actions. This can be seen as an addition to the broader revival of sociological attention to colonialism, postcolonial states, imperialism, and empire in the past two decades (Go 2011, 2013; Steinmetz 2013).…”

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Decolonization Not Inclusion

Steinman

2015

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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American Indians experience forms of domination and resist them through a wide range of decolonizing processes that are commonly overlooked, misidentified, or minimally analyzed by American sociology. This inattention reflects the naturalizing use of minoritizing frameworks regarding tribal members and ethnic rather than political conceptions of American Indian nationhood, membership, and identity. Drawing upon a settler colonial framework, the author uses an analytic typology to identify particular dimensions of settler colonialism, their manifestations, and indigenous action addressing those forms of power. Implications for race and ethnic scholarship and for indigenous participation in racial politics are considered.

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Why was Standing Rock and the #NoDAPL campaign so historic? Factors affecting American Indian participation in social movement collaborations and coalitions

Steinman

2018

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Gendering, Racializing and Classifying: Settler Colonization in the United States, 1590–1990

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Dilemmas of Settler Belonging: Roots, Routes and Redemption in New Zealand National Identity Claims

Dilemmas of Settler Belonging: Roots, Routes and Redemption in New Zealand National Identity Claims

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Why was Standing Rock and the #NoDAPL campaign so historic? Factors affecting American Indian participation in social movement collaborations and coalitions

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