Unsettling Narratives: Settler Colonialism and Citizenship Education

• In Event: 61.062 - The Disparate Stories of America

Abstract

Despite Castro and Knowles (2017) called for future research to “trace” and “interrogate” the effects of identity on citizenship (p. 308). it remains untroubled at its foundations. Specifically, citizenship in the United States is predicated on an ongoing settler colonial project that erases Indigenous people and perpetuates anti-Blackness (Calderon, 2014; Tuck & Gaztambide-Fernandez, 2013; Patel, 2015; Wolfe, 2006). Reviewing the literature of civic education in social studies research using settler colonialism as a theoretical framework to evaluate the efficacy of the conclusions derived in calls to challenge current models of civic education and citizenship. Findings suggest productive troubling of settler colonial logics, however, the majority of empirical research reifies settler colonial technologies and has implications for the future of our field.

Authors

• Ryan Oto, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• George Dalbo, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Daniel Bordwell, University of Minnesota