The Settler Complex: Recuperating Binarism in Colonial
Studies
Description :
Nonfiction Native American Studies The essays in this volume confront the assimilationist agendas in settler colonial states around the world that seek to erase the distinct histories and current status
of Indigenous peoples as sovereign peoples In the introduction editor Patrick Wolfe provocatively asks whether the repudiation of binarism by nonNative scholars constitutes a colonizing perspective Questions of identity form part of the ongoing process of settler colonialism that seeks to eliminate the Native In various ways by no means unanimously the articles in this collection address these and related issues