L/land Relations

In her important work bringing Indigenous studies and Black studies together in The Black Shoals, Tiffany Lethabo King makes a strong case that analytical frames originating in White settler colonial studies that foreground land, rather than genocide and conquest, as the defining feature of colonialism miss intersectionality and grounds for coalition politics between Black and Indigenous peoples. She writes, “Genocide – and the making of the Native body as less than human, or flesh – remains the focus and distinguishing feature of settler colonialism,” […]