Settler States of Feeling: National Belonging and the Erasure of Native American Presence

Rifkin, Mark

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“…Leifso's analysis shows that Rider Nation is an exclusively white settler identity: "citizenship in Rider Nation remains dependent upon settler feelings and an acceptance that difficult times, defined solely by the experience of white settler Saskatchewanians, are a thing of the past" (Leifso 2019:53). Thus, Rider Nation works to reproduce settler colonial and national projects by ignoring or marginalizing forms of despair that occur (particularly to Indigenous peoples) in the present (Rifkin 2011;Mackey 2014;Leifso 2019). As Leifso writes, "in the Rider Nation, all is well.…”

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Disrupting a Canadian Prairie Fantasy and Constructing Racial Otherness: An Analysis of News Media Coverage of Trevis Smith’s Criminal HIV Non-Disclosure Case

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This paper studies how HIV criminalization is portrayed in the mainstream Canadian press by examining news representations of Trevis Smith. Smith’s case is the most reported case of criminal HIV non-disclosure in Canadian history. Our analysis is based on a corpus of 271 articles written about Smith between 2005 and 2012. Our analysis shows that coverage of Smith’s case is distinct from reportage of other criminal HIV non-disclosure cases because he was a well-known Black athlete playing for the Saskatchewan Roughriders at the time of his criminal charge. We argue that news articles represent Smith as a particular kind of threatening racialized “other” through forms of writing that link crime reporting with sports reporting. Our analysis of headlines and quotation patterns emphasizes how news articles construct Smith as a blameworthy outsider and produce Canada as an imagined white settler nation.

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Disrupting a Canadian Prairie Fantasy and Constructing Racial Otherness: An Analysis of News Media Coverage of Trevis Smith’s Criminal HIV Non-Disclosure Case

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“…Settler colonial ideology extends sovereignty to immigrants perceived by the dominant group as ethnically or culturally similar, while marginalizing immigrants regarded as culturally and ethnically distinct from the dominant group. If, as Mark Rifkin suggests, indigenous people, deprived of their sovereign claims to land, have suffered from the “forced incorporation” into the settler colonial state, then immigrants seeking inclusion are met with resistance (342). Since many immigrants come to settler‐colonial societies such as the United States and Canada as refugees or in otherwise precarious circumstances, their immigration is not an extension of colonial sovereignty.…”

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Adapting the Transnational Prairie: Little House, Little Mosque, and Little Laos

Anderson¹

2016

The J of Popular Culture

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“…As unmarked, it has often been invisible to white scholars and persons (Moreton‐Robinson ). Its invisibility relative to Indigenous difference is sustained in part by what Mark Rifkin has called a “settler common sense” that comprises an “embodied set & of sensations, dispositions, and lived trajectories” that shape action in the “field of possibility” constituted by settler society (Rifkin , 8–9, 12–16; see also Rifkin ).…”

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Settler agnosia in the field: Indigenous action, functional ignorance, and the origins of ethnographic entrapment

Arndt

2016

American Ethnologist

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In the late 1930s a novice fieldworker from the University of Chicago wrote in his field notes that his collaboration with a Ho‐Chunk interpreter had failed because of the interpreter's “aggressions” in the struggle for “white class status.” The notes exhibit a pattern of perceptual failure that I call “settler agnosia,” elements of which have been noted in research on the obstacles facing Indigenous activists. The case shows that the tendency of older anthropological accounts of contemporary American Indian life to obscure evidence of both colonial oppression and Indigenous action may have originated as consequences of a form of functional ignorance triggered by interpersonal struggles over position in the everyday relations of settler society. An ethnographic investigation of the links between settler agnosia and the practice of settlerness connects perception in everyday interactions to larger issues of knowledge production in and of settler societies. [settler colonialism, field theory, Bourdieu, race, ignorance, indigeneity, Native North America]

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Settler States of Feeling: National Belonging and the Erasure of Native American Presence

Cited by 69 publications

References 15 publications

Disrupting a Canadian Prairie Fantasy and Constructing Racial Otherness: An Analysis of News Media Coverage of Trevis Smith’s Criminal HIV Non-Disclosure Case

Disrupting a Canadian Prairie Fantasy and Constructing Racial Otherness: An Analysis of News Media Coverage of Trevis Smith’s Criminal HIV Non-Disclosure Case

Adapting the Transnational Prairie: Little House, Little Mosque, and Little Laos

Settler agnosia in the field: Indigenous action, functional ignorance, and the origins of ethnographic entrapment

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