Kevin Bruyneel, "Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States" (UNC Press, 2021)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Boys' Reconstruction Is Canonical
You have quite a bit to say about how land, both the idea and the story of land, gets talked about. So can you explain that a bit? Absolutely. The notion of reconstruction is a type of framing that goes back to this particular period after the civil war. In the argument that de boys makes powerfully, that we all read and reproduce. By his own account, land and the distribution of land is fundamental to the political and just importantly, economic freedom of black americans. He goes back to land all the time. But i think there's a missing narrative here terms of the story ofland and what it means. And for me, going back and thinking about the story of
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