Mutual Futurity

Rethinking Incommensurability between Indigenous Sovereignty and Black Freedom

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ID2353261
AuthorsJ Quizar (0000-0002-3594-6379, University of Washington Tacoma, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume41
Issue2
Pages57-71
Publication date2024-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/02632764231194493
OpenAlexW4387195359
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited24

Engaging feminist and queer of color theory as well as work emerging from social movements, this piece critically examines narratives of impasse between Black Studies and Native Studies in the US, particularly assertions of incommensurability between the goals of Black freedom and Native sovereignty. The article outlines some of the theoretical debates between Black and Indigenous Studies that have calcified into impasses, focusing particularly on Afropessimist and Settler Colonial Studies' framings of either slavery/anti-Blackness or settler colonialism as the foundational violence around which a racist/settler modernity is structured. This article argues that approaches that emphasize relationality and the co-determination of settler colonialism and anti-Black racism can help us to think beyond a Black/Native impasse and towards a mutual futurity for both Black and Indigenous people in living in the place we currently call the United States

Colonialism · Critical race theory · Indigenous · Modernity · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Queer · Racism · Sociology · Sovereignty · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society

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