Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race — with Kevin Bruyneel

Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States (University of North Carolina Press 2021) is about the displacement of Indigeneity in the discourse around race in American political theory, with settler memory being about recognizing or acknowledging the history of Indigenous peoples in colonialism, and then disavowing the active presence of settler colonialism and Indigenous politics in the present.

Am and Kevin discuss how Black theorists, like James Baldwin, discuss Indigeneity in their politics, and how tensions can arise between different conceptions of land, history, and identity. Kevin’s overall project is to link antiracism with anticolonialism, which shows through in the conversation..

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/173-kevin-bruyneel.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/173-kevin-bruyneel.html

Resources:
Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States by Kevin Bruynee: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469665238/settler-memory/
Bacon's Rebellion: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/events-african-american-history/bacons-rebellion-1676/
W.E.B. Du Bois: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dubois/
James Baldwin: https://nmaahc.si.edu/james-baldwin
The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty by Aileen Moreton-Robinson: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-white-possessive
Layli Long Soldier: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/layli-long-soldier
Dr. Kim TallBear: https://kimtallbear.com/
Cristina Sharpe: https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/cesharpe/
Cedric Robinson: https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/robinson-cedric-j/
I Am Not Your Negro: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/i-am-not-your-negro/
Kyle Mays: https://www.kyle-mays.com/
Afro Pessimism: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-argument-of-afropessimism
Frank Wilderson: https://www.frankbwildersoniii.com/about/
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: https://www.leannesimpson.ca/
Robyn Maynard: https://robynmaynard.com/
Stuart Hall: https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/hall-stuart/
Kēhaulani Kauanui: https://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Jean M. O’Brien: https://shekonneechie.ca/biographies/jean-obrien/
Lee Maracle: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lee-maracle-death-bc-indigenous-writer-poet-1.6245582
Jodi Byrd: https://as.cornell.edu/news/new-faculty-jodi-byrd
Campuses and Colonialism: https://www.oah.org/insights/opportunities-for-historians/cfp-campuses-and-colonialism-symposium/
Malinda Maynor Lowery: http://history.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/lowery-malinda-maynor.html
Stephen Kantrowitz: https://history.wisc.edu/people/kantrowitz-stephen/
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/africana-and-american-studies/faculty/faculty-directory/mt-pleasant.html

Bio:
Kevin Bruyneel is Professor of Politics at Babson College, teaching about race, colonialism and collective memory. He wrote the books, Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity in the Political Life of Race in the United States (University of North Carolina Press 2021) and The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.-Indigenous Relations (University of Minnesota Press 2007). Kevin was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, studied at Simon Fraser University and the New School for Social Research in New York City, and now lives and teaches in Massachusetts.

Cite this episode:
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Johal, Am. “Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race — with Kevin Bruyneel” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, May 17, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/173-kevin-bruyneel.html.