The white settler state: challenging white ancestral logics and contemporary representations

Session Submission Type: Alternative Session

Abstract

From South and North of the Mason-Dixon Line, white settler and white immigrant researchers examine the hegemony of whiteness as property (Harris, 1993) and their relation to land and place, white supremacist ideologies, and white racial terrorism with the aim of reframing everyday discourse deployed by whites and through predominately white institutions. Informed by Harris’ work on whiteness as property in particular, Tuck and Yang’s (2012) work on the need for land-based frameworks to critique of settler and colonial structures of dispossession, and Ayers (2009) call for reframing dialogue at every level to challenge the dogma of the status quo and invite political education, the researchers examine their relationality to white settler colonization. Specifically, they challenge majoritarian narratives of white righteousness and northern exceptionalism and trouble common non-starters often deployed in lieu of taking up the work to disrupt white supremacy.

Sub Track

• AESA

Presenters

• Josh Diem, Rhode Island College

• James M. DeVita, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Session Organizer

• Allison Anders, University of South Carolina