PERNICIOUS CONTINUITIES

Abstract

This paper argues that Milwaukee Gurdwara shootings and racism against Sikh communities, and other racialized communities, need to be situated within the broader context of past and ongoing dispossession and colonization of indigenous peoples across North America. The analysis of racial violence is incomplete and inaccurate without the analysis of settler colonialism on stolen lands. This paper asks: What happens if histories of indigenous genocide, dispossession, displacement and colonization are forgotten from the genealogies of racism and colonialism? Taking direction from Amina Mama [1997. Sheroes and villains: Conceptualizing colonial and contemporary violence against women in Africa. In Feminist genealogies, colonial violences, democratic futures, ed. M.J. Alexander and C.T. Mohanty, 46–62. New York: Routledge], this paper examines pernicious continuities, spatially and temporally across continents, to un/map genealogies of race, racism and colonialism.

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