What Can “Settler of Colour” Teach Us?: A Conversation of the Complexities of Decolonization in White Universities
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In chapter 10, Shaista Patel and Nisha Nath explore the idea of “settlers of colour,” in upholding ongoing colonial violence and Indigenous dispossession in North America. Building on the foundational discussions among Indigenous and racialized people in particular, they consider the positioning of non-Black People of Colour within (re)productions of white settler colonialism in universities in Canada and the U.S.
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Contributors
Shaista Patel
Shaista Abdul Aziz Patel identifies as a Pakistani Muslim feminist scholar. Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar, her investments are in several questions that draw upon theories in Indigenous (to parts of North America and South Asia), Black, Dalit and anti-caste, critical Muslim and transnational feminist studies.
Nisha Nath
Nisha Nath (she/they) locates herself as a settler woman of colour whose family comes from divergent social locations in India. She lives in Amiskwacîwâskahikan (colonially known as Edmonton) and works as an assistant professor of equity studies at Athabasca University. In addition to collaborating on a manuscript on “The Letters” with Drs. Davina Bhandar, Rita Dhamoon and Anita Girvan, she is working on two major projects implicating race, security, gender and citizenship — along with an interdisciplinary team of scholars in the Canada and UK: the first is a British Academy–funded project on racial capitalism and security and a second sshrc-funded project with Dr. Willow Samara Allen on the settler-colonial socialization of public sector workers.
