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Environmental injustice, extractive capitalism and Indigenous erasure are living proof of settler colonialism's ongoing existence, argues Sakshi Aravind

How a racist, “erotic” video game turned into a considered trolling operation.

Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history—and the role that immigrants play in perpetuating it.

  Here is a mission worthy of a new generation.” -José Carlos Mariátegui, “Anniversary and Balance,”  José Carlos Mariátegui: An  Anthology June 26, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Orinoco Tribune — While the turn towards analyzing ongoing settler-colonialism has finally reached the mainstream of North American political discussions, there is still a lack of popular understanding of the issues involved. Settler-colonialism is, ironically, understood within the framework of the ways of thinking brought by the European ruling classes...

June 3, 2021 Two new faculty members who specialize in Native American and Indigenous literatures will join the Department of Literatures in English for the fall of 2021. The hires of Jodi Byrd, currently faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Juliana Hu Pegues, currently faculty at the University of Minnesota, build upon the 2019 addition of Kiowa filmmaker Jeffrey Palmer to Performing and Media Arts in broader efforts to increase faculty diversity, said Derk Pereboom, senior associate dean for arts and humanities and the Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy. “On...