‘Lateral violence stems from the colonial system’: settler-colonialism and lateral violence in Aboriginal Australians

Whyman, Theoni; Murrup-Stewart, Cammi; Young, Mark E.; Carter, Adrian; Jobson, Laura

doi:10.1080/13688790.2021.2009213

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“…Lateral oppression or violence is rooted, in part, in the deliberate efforts of the settler-colonial project to erase the existence of Indigenous Peoples. The oppressive regulation of access to resources and land, blood quantum laws, and US hegemony feed the competition and aggression within Indigenous communities [ 58 ]. Participants’ assertion of the need to recognize and combat internalized racial oppression and the ways it manifests as lateral violence or oppression echoes calls to action from scholars who see the minimal awareness of and empirical attention to these phenomena as critical barriers to antiracist progress [ 59 ].…”

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An Antiracism Community-Based Participatory Research With Organizations Serving Immigrant and Marginalized Communities, Including Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders in the United States Pacific Northwest: Qualitative Description Study With Key Informants

Nguyen-Truong¹,

Waters²,

Richardson³

et al. 2023

Asian Pac Isl Nurs J

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Background Asian American (AA) community leaders, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (NH/PI) community leaders, and allies in the United States Pacific Northwest expressed concern that there are families and children from AA communities and NH/PI communities who experience and witness acts of xenophobia and racism. This can cause racial trauma. The long-time practice of aggregating AA and NH/PI data contributes to erasure and makes it challenging to advance health equity, such as allocating resources. According to AAPI Data’s long-awaited report in June 2022, there are over 24 million AAs and 1.6 million NHs/PIs in the United States, growing by 40% and 30%, respectively, between 2010 and 2020. Philanthropic investments have not kept up with this substantive increase. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine emphasized the need for effective partnerships to advance the health and well-being of individuals and communities in antiracism and system-level research. Objective The aim of this community-based participatory research qualitative description study was to identify perceptions and experiences regarding racial discrimination, race-based stress, and racial trauma; intergenerational healing and resiliency; and sharing the body with science from key informants of an academic and community partnership to inform antiracism coalition work. This partnership includes academic researchers and community leaders from community-based organizations and a health care organization serving immigrant and marginalized communities, including AAs and NHs/PIs in the United States Pacific Northwest. Methods In total, 10 key informants joined 1 of 2 participatory group discussions via videoconference for 2 hours in 2022. We used a semistructured and open-ended group interview guide. A qualitative participatory group-level assessment was conducted with the key informants and transcribed. Interpretations and meanings of the main points and the main themes were reflected upon, clarified, and verified with the key informants in real time. The field note–based data transcripts were manually coded using conventional content analysis. Reflexivity was used. Results There were 6 main themes: prejudice plus power in racism definition and working in solidarity to counter lateral oppression/false sense of security, microaggression as multilayers, “not assimilationist by nature” and responding differently to white superiority, intergenerational- and identity-related trauma, what is healing among People of Color and through a lens of resiliency and intergenerational connection and knowledge, and mistrust and fear in the research and health care systems surrounding intentions of the body. Conclusions The themes highlight the importance of internal and intergenerational healing from racial trauma and the need for solidarity among communities of color to combat white supremacy and colonization. This work was foundational in an ongoing effort to dismantle racism and uplift the community voice through a cross-sector academic and community partnership to inform antiracism coalition work.

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An Antiracism Community-Based Participatory Research With Organizations Serving Immigrant and Marginalized Communities, Including Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders in the United States Pacific Northwest: Qualitative Description Study With Key Informants

Nguyen-Truong¹,

Waters²,

Richardson³

et al. 2023

Asian Pac Isl Nurs J

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“…14). Whyman et al (2021) define lateral violence as "an expression of feelings of powerlessness, bought on through the oppression Aboriginal peoples experienced via settler-colonization" (p. 15). In their research that interviewed 17 Aboriginal men and women in Naarm, the original name of Melbourne, Australia, they found CoA processes to be one of the major causes of lateral violence in the communities of their participants, referred to as knowledge holders:…”

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“…In this way, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people are pit against each other, especially when individuals in those organisations can, and do, become self-appointed identity gatekeepers. This reality creates the conditions for what Freire (2005) described as “horizontal violence” (p. 62), or what is now more recently referred to as lateral violence (Whyman et al, 2021).…”

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“…When Aboriginal organisations and individuals are complicit in challenging or rejecting peoples’ identities, they engage in a form of lateral violence that compounds the impacts of colonial violence. Lateral violence has been characterised as the “tendency of peoples from oppressed groups to direct their anger and frustrations toward members of their own culture” (Whyman et al, 2021, p. 1). Historical and continuing colonial oppression and control have been identified as creating the conditions for lateral violence to flourish (Gooda, 2011).…”

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Where our identity lies: Confirmation of Aboriginality—narratives of colonial and lateral violence

Walke,

Townsend-Cross,

Garay

et al. 2024

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are facing growing levels of scrutiny to prove their identity to access Indigenous-specific government services designed to mitigate the impacts of past government policies. Yet, it is those who have been most severely impacted by past government policies of forcible removal from Country and separation of families who often face challenges obtaining evidence to prove their Indigeneity. Employing narrative inquiry and collaborative autoethnography, this article draws on the personal reflections and experiences of the Aboriginal authors to explore the health and wellbeing impacts of deficit discourses, perceptions, and judgements about Indigeneity in Australia. Our personal stories are shared to enliven discussion on how proof of Indigeneity requirements may systemically compound ongoing intergenerational trauma. These stories and perspectives are shared to stimulate review of proof of Indigeneity policies and procedures by government agencies and education institutions across Australia.

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“…Beyond reputational risks, research has found lateral violence (aggression directed internally between members of an oppressed group) to be common within Indigenous communities (Whyman, Adams, et al, 2021). Research looking into the causes of Indigenous lateral violence in Australia has found that identity issues, internalized racism, and issues associated with obtaining status were some of the key causes spurring this violence (Whyman, Murrup-Steward, et al, 2021).…”

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Beyond binaries: mixed-blood Indigenous inequalities

Dicks

2023

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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This article explores existing research related to mixed-blood Indigenous individuals in an effort to reveal a more complete picture of social inequality that exists within and between the binary categorization of Indigenous and non-Indigenous within Canada. Tracing a line through past and present discriminatory assimilationist policies, this article reveals the pervasive challenges associated with living as a mixed-blood Indigenous person in this country. Marked by a perpetual struggle to gain recognition from both Indigenous and settler populations, individuals living within this marginal identity face a structure of inequality that is little explored in contemporary research literature.

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‘Lateral violence stems from the colonial system’: settler-colonialism and lateral violence in Aboriginal Australians

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An Antiracism Community-Based Participatory Research With Organizations Serving Immigrant and Marginalized Communities, Including Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders in the United States Pacific Northwest: Qualitative Description Study With Key Informants

An Antiracism Community-Based Participatory Research With Organizations Serving Immigrant and Marginalized Communities, Including Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders in the United States Pacific Northwest: Qualitative Description Study With Key Informants

Where our identity lies: Confirmation of Aboriginality—narratives of colonial and lateral violence

Beyond binaries: mixed-blood Indigenous inequalities

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