Settler Colonial Amnesia and the Technologies of Erasure: Recapitulation, Chronicity, Recognition, and Reparations

• In Event: Millennium Hotel Roundtable Session 3

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium explores the national collective amnesia of settler colonization as an active process, that requires schools and other state-identified “public” spaces to engage in acts of erasure. The authors each address specific technologies of erasure that participate in the continuation of the settler colonial state, ensuring the dispossession of land, language, quality education, and the right to restitution of historical debts. The authors read across critical theoretical frameworks including 1) the recapitulation of the myths of “development” and civilization; 2) chronicity in the mis-education of Black youth; 3) the implications of the politics of recognition versus the politics of decolonization posed by adoption of state/tribal curriculums, and; 4) reparational language theory as a pedagogical stance with Latinx youth.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 2: Histories and Futurities (The Frames of Curriculum)

Chairs

• Leigh Patel, University of California - Riverside

• Brian Lozenski, Macalester College

Papers

• Recapitulating the Myth of "Development" - Katie Johnston-Goodstar, University of Minnesota

• Chronicity and Black Miseducation: Resisting Ahistorical Framings of Black Schooling - Brian Lozenski, Macalester College

• The Politics of Recognition Versus the Politics of Decolonization in State-Adopted Tribal Curricula - Dolores Calderon, Western Washington University

• The "Bonus" of Justice: Conceptualizing Reparational Language Education Against the Subtractive Schooling of Latinx Youth - Jenna Cushing-Leubner, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater