Practicing Anticolonial Literacies Against the Settler Literacies of Empire

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 9:45 am - Gold 2
  In Roundtable Session: Decolonial Voices and Educational Futures Across Borders

Abstract

As settler narratives locate colonial violence in the past, many non-Indigenous people in the U.S. lack the tools we need to engage in meaningful practice to counter settler colonialism across Turtle Island, in Palestine, and elsewhere globally. To discuss how settler colonialism operates here and now in relation to English education, I share a reading of English Education from settler colonial studies perspectives, describing how settler literacies are embedded in ELA place and world-making. I argue that settler literacies not only facilitate belonging to and support of settler nation-states and an inability to critique settlement globally, but also forestall racial justice indefinitely. I extend anticolonial literacies as necessary practices towards worldwide liberated futures, offering examples of anticolonial literacy practice.

Author

• Theresa Burruel Stone, Sonoma State University