Grande
Biographic Data
| ID | 24307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grande |
| FAMILY NAME | Grande |
| SIGNATURE | GRANDE |
| AFFILIATIONS | Connecticut College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4562-5149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Critical Place Theory
In this article, Grande argues that the frameworks of Critical Race Theory (CRT), designed to unveil the presence and impact of race and racism in the systems and structures of U.S. law and society, do not inhere the explanatory power for understanding the prior and enduring condition of settler colonization, Indigenous land dispossession or lifeways that center the constitutive relations of land
Weeding Whitestream Feminism
Over twenty years after her article “Whitestream Feminism and the Colonialist Project” was published, Dr. Sandy Grande gathered other Indigenous women across disciplines and stages of career to discuss how the feminist project has been taken up or resisted in the field of Indigenous studies. They start with a definition of Indigenous feminism and then move on to discuss whether a decolonial feminism is possible, what “feminism” as a politics and …
Grounded Engagement Against Empire
Trumpocalypse and the Historical Limits of Higher Education Policy
This essay highlights the limits of liberal reform policies designed to increase access to higher education for minoritized and marginalized groups. First, we discuss Trump’s higher education agenda, focusing on his antipathy toward these populations and his commitment to White supremacy. We then focus on affirmative action in college admissions as an exemplar of a liberal racial equity policy, sketching its history, which illustrates its anemic …
“Relinking Back to Community”
We begin this kitchen-table talk with personal offerings that reflect our connection to—and positioning within—this work. Drawing on our personal experiences, our commitments, and our histories, we discuss the importance of reclaiming and recovering indigenous ways of knowing and being, the importance and centrality of community, and the possibilities of educational settings—even while operating as colonial enterprises—as a site for connection. W…
Catastrophe, Care, and All That Remains
During 2020 a menacing sense of doom and anxiety proliferated by the Trump administration's shock-and-awe tactics compounded the brutally uneven distribution of exposure, social atomization, precarity, abandonment, and premature death under the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has had especially lethal consequences for those who are impoverished, racially abjected, and deemed violable or disposable within economies of dispossession. For Indigenous…
Teachings against Empire
Refusing the University
This chapter begins with articulating the particularities of settler colonialism and Native elimination. Next, it examines liberal theories of justice as the underlying structure operating within the politics of recognition. The chapter also discusses the academy as an arm of the settler state, which is distinct from other frameworks that critique the academy as fundamentally neoliberal, Eurocentric, and/or patriarchal. Through the discussion of …
Indigenous elsewheres
This special issue began with an invited talk Sandy Grande gave at the University of California, Los Angeles, entitled, ‘Biopolitics, Aging and the Struggle for Indigenous Elsewheres.’1 Five Indige
Aging, precarity, and the struggle for Indigenous elsewheres
Through the structures and logics of the settler/capitalist state, the aging body can only be viewed as a crisis of decreased labor power and increased social expenditure; an amortization that has only worsened under neoliberalism. As such, this article calls attention to the conspicuous absence of a counter discourse and politics of aging within Native American and Indigenous studies. Within Indigenous communities, elders have always held places…
Un-Settling Multicultural Erasures
This essay begins by naming liberal forms of multiculturalism as a complicit discourse and theory in the erasure of Indigenous peoples. For example, it troubles the false narrative of the United States as a “nation of immigrants,” offered up so frequently as a corrective to the current administration's divisive rhetoric and policies. The essay underscores the important role of educators in interrupting the settler logics that pervade liberal educ…
Red Pedagogy
This ground-breaking text explores the intersection between dominant modes of critical educational theory and the socio-political landscape of American Indian education. Grande asserts that, with few exceptions, the matters of Indigenous people and Indian education have been either largely ignored or indiscriminately absorbed within critical theories of education. Furthermore, American Indian scholars and educators have largely resisted engagemen…
Accumulation of the primitive
This article examines the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement and its basic elision of Indigenous peoples as the first and already “occupied” peoples of this land; illuminating the so-called 99% as not simply united in their collective indignation, but also their settler status. Thus, by deploying the discursive trope and strategy of “occupation” as its central organizing principle, OWS reconstitutes (territorial) appropriation as the democratic ma…
Red Pedagogy
American Indian identity and intellectualism
In this article Grande argues that American Indian intellectualism and its central concerns - sovereignty and self-determination - have been ignored, obscured, and impeded by dominant modes of educational theory. More specifically, she argues that current obsessions with identity theory and formation work to deny the critical difference of American Indians as tribal peoples of distinct nations with sovereign status and treaty rights. Dominant mod…
Beyond the Ecologically Noble Savage
American Indian identity and intellectualism
In this article Grande argues that American Indian intellectualism and its central concerns - sovereignty and self-determination - have been ignored, obscured, and impeded by dominant modes of educational theory. More specifically, she argues that current obsessions with identity theory and formation work to deny the critical difference of American Indians as tribal peoples of distinct nations with sovereign status and treaty rights. Dominant mod…
Beyond the Ecologically Noble Savage
Aging, precarity, and the struggle for Indigenous elsewheres
Through the structures and logics of the settler/capitalist state, the aging body can only be viewed as a crisis of decreased labor power and increased social expenditure; an amortization that has only worsened under neoliberalism. As such, this article calls attention to the conspicuous absence of a counter discourse and politics of aging within Native American and Indigenous studies. Within Indigenous communities, elders have always held places…
Indigenous elsewheres
This special issue began with an invited talk Sandy Grande gave at the University of California, Los Angeles, entitled, ‘Biopolitics, Aging and the Struggle for Indigenous Elsewheres.’1 Five Indige
Un-Settling Multicultural Erasures
This essay begins by naming liberal forms of multiculturalism as a complicit discourse and theory in the erasure of Indigenous peoples. For example, it troubles the false narrative of the United States as a “nation of immigrants,” offered up so frequently as a corrective to the current administration's divisive rhetoric and policies. The essay underscores the important role of educators in interrupting the settler logics that pervade liberal educ…
Beyond the Ecologically Noble Savage
American Indian identity and intellectualism
In this article Grande argues that American Indian intellectualism and its central concerns - sovereignty and self-determination - have been ignored, obscured, and impeded by dominant modes of educational theory. More specifically, she argues that current obsessions with identity theory and formation work to deny the critical difference of American Indians as tribal peoples of distinct nations with sovereign status and treaty rights. Dominant mod…
Red Pedagogy
Accumulation of the primitive
This article examines the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement and its basic elision of Indigenous peoples as the first and already “occupied” peoples of this land; illuminating the so-called 99% as not simply united in their collective indignation, but also their settler status. Thus, by deploying the discursive trope and strategy of “occupation” as its central organizing principle, OWS reconstitutes (territorial) appropriation as the democratic ma…
Red Pedagogy
This ground-breaking text explores the intersection between dominant modes of critical educational theory and the socio-political landscape of American Indian education. Grande asserts that, with few exceptions, the matters of Indigenous people and Indian education have been either largely ignored or indiscriminately absorbed within critical theories of education. Furthermore, American Indian scholars and educators have largely resisted engagemen…
Un-Settling Multicultural Erasures
This essay begins by naming liberal forms of multiculturalism as a complicit discourse and theory in the erasure of Indigenous peoples. For example, it troubles the false narrative of the United States as a “nation of immigrants,” offered up so frequently as a corrective to the current administration's divisive rhetoric and policies. The essay underscores the important role of educators in interrupting the settler logics that pervade liberal educ…
Refusing the University
This chapter begins with articulating the particularities of settler colonialism and Native elimination. Next, it examines liberal theories of justice as the underlying structure operating within the politics of recognition. The chapter also discusses the academy as an arm of the settler state, which is distinct from other frameworks that critique the academy as fundamentally neoliberal, Eurocentric, and/or patriarchal. Through the discussion of …
Indigenous elsewheres
This special issue began with an invited talk Sandy Grande gave at the University of California, Los Angeles, entitled, ‘Biopolitics, Aging and the Struggle for Indigenous Elsewheres.’1 Five Indige
Aging, precarity, and the struggle for Indigenous elsewheres
Through the structures and logics of the settler/capitalist state, the aging body can only be viewed as a crisis of decreased labor power and increased social expenditure; an amortization that has only worsened under neoliberalism. As such, this article calls attention to the conspicuous absence of a counter discourse and politics of aging within Native American and Indigenous studies. Within Indigenous communities, elders have always held places…
Catastrophe, Care, and All That Remains
During 2020 a menacing sense of doom and anxiety proliferated by the Trump administration's shock-and-awe tactics compounded the brutally uneven distribution of exposure, social atomization, precarity, abandonment, and premature death under the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has had especially lethal consequences for those who are impoverished, racially abjected, and deemed violable or disposable within economies of dispossession. For Indigenous…
Teachings against Empire
“Relinking Back to Community”
We begin this kitchen-table talk with personal offerings that reflect our connection to—and positioning within—this work. Drawing on our personal experiences, our commitments, and our histories, we discuss the importance of reclaiming and recovering indigenous ways of knowing and being, the importance and centrality of community, and the possibilities of educational settings—even while operating as colonial enterprises—as a site for connection. W…
Trumpocalypse and the Historical Limits of Higher Education Policy
This essay highlights the limits of liberal reform policies designed to increase access to higher education for minoritized and marginalized groups. First, we discuss Trump’s higher education agenda, focusing on his antipathy toward these populations and his commitment to White supremacy. We then focus on affirmative action in college admissions as an exemplar of a liberal racial equity policy, sketching its history, which illustrates its anemic …
Grounded Engagement Against Empire
Critical Place Theory
In this article, Grande argues that the frameworks of Critical Race Theory (CRT), designed to unveil the presence and impact of race and racism in the systems and structures of U.S. law and society, do not inhere the explanatory power for understanding the prior and enduring condition of settler colonization, Indigenous land dispossession or lifeways that center the constitutive relations of land
Weeding Whitestream Feminism
Over twenty years after her article “Whitestream Feminism and the Colonialist Project” was published, Dr. Sandy Grande gathered other Indigenous women across disciplines and stages of career to discuss how the feminist project has been taken up or resisted in the field of Indigenous studies. They start with a definition of Indigenous feminism and then move on to discuss whether a decolonial feminism is possible, what “feminism” as a politics and …
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Indigenous (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)