Description
Walkiewicz centers her analysis on statehood movements to create the places now called Georgia, Florida, Kansas, Cuba, and Oklahoma. In each case she shows that Indigenous dispossession and anti-Blackness scaffolded the settler-colonial project of establishing states' rights. But dissent and contestation by Indigenous and Black people imagined alternative paths, even as their exclusion and removal reshaped and renamed territory. By recovering this tension, Walkiewicz argues we more fully understand the role of state-centered discourse as an expression of settler colonialism. We also come to see the possibilities for a territorial ethic that insists on thinking beyond the boundaries of the state.
About the Author
Kathryn Walkiewicz is assistant professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469672953
Author Kathryn Walkiewicz
Format Paperback
Page Count 314
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Weight(grams) 272g