Breaching the Colonial Contract - Anti-Colonialism in the US and Canada

Acknowledgements

Foreword

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Contents

Introduction: The Politics of the North American Colonial in 2009

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Chapter 1 Contemporary Anticolonialism: A Transhistorical Perspective

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Colonialism and Anticolonialism

1.3 Anticolonialism and Whiteness: On Location, Privilege, and Accountability

1.4 Anticolonial Historiography

1.5 Conclusion

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Chapter 2 Self-Determination and the Fourth World: An Introductory Survey

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Chapter 3 Making Explicit the Jurisprudential Foundations of Multiculturalism: The Continuing Challenges of Colonial Education in US Schooling for Indigenous Education

3.1 How Colonization Has Organized Identity Within the United States: An Examination of Central Legal Sources

3.2 From Supreme Court Precedent to Normative Multicultural Education: The Central Role of Citizenship, Equality, and Diversity in Multiculturalism

3.3 The Maintenance of the Colonial Project in Law and Normative Multicultural Education: The Challenge for Both Native Peoples and Communities of Color

3.4 Conclusion: Interest Convergence and the Singularity Thesis: Rely on US Law at Your Own Peril

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Appendix

Chapter 4 Paulo Freire and the Politics of Postcolonialism

4.1 Homelessness and the Border Intellectual

4.2 Freire as Border Crosser

4.3 Freire and Postcolonial Discourse

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Chapter 5 Walking Out of Colonialism One Classroom at a Time: Student Walkouts and Colonial/ Modern Disciplinarity in El Paso, Texas

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Colonial/Modern Disciplinarity in the US–Mexico Borderlands

5.3 The Colonialist Classroom in El Paso

5.4 Historical Memory and US Colonialism

5.5 Walking Out of Colonialism and the Strategies of Containment

5.6 Conclusion

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Chapter 6 Indigenous Peoples and Black People in Canada: Settlers or Allies?

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Our Different Places in the Story…

6.3 Historical Context: Colonization and Settlement in Canada

6.4 Indigenous Ways of Maintaining Relatedness

6.5 Another Way of Understanding the Story: The Theoretical Picture of Our Relations in Black Thought

6.6 Racial Classification and Its Effect on Indigenous–Black Relations

6.7 Where Are the Struggles Today and What Are the Implications?

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Chapter 7 Resistance from the Margin: Voices of African-Canadian Parents on Africentric Education

7.1 Finding Our Voices: The Rage at the Margin

7.2 Mapping Anticolonial Terrain for Africentric Schools

7.3 Methodology

7.4 The Sensation of Moving While Still Standing: The Education of Black Youth in Toronto

7.5 Issues of Parental Involvement: Dispelling the Myth

7.6 In Search of an Alternative Approach to Schooling: Black Students and Learning

7.7 Much Ado About Segregation in Africentric Schools and Issues of Re(Segregation)

7.8 Discussions and Conclusion

7.9 Postscript

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Chapter 8 Anticolonialism, Labor, and the Pedagogies of Community Unionism: The Case of Hotel Workers in Canada

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Context

8.3 Reading Anticolonialist Thought: Setting the Stage for Understanding Hotel Worker Campaigns

8.4 Organized Labor, Re-colonialism–Anticolonialism: Community Unionism as a Departure?

8.5 The Hotel Worker Rising and Community Benefits Campaigns

8.6 Conclusions

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Chapter 9 The Anguish of Power: Remapping Mental Diversity with an Anticolonial Compass

9.1 Introduction

9.2 The WHO and Mental Illness

9.3 The Imperative of Mental Illness

9.4 Living with “Mental Issues”

9.5 The Colonial Imperative

9.6 The Imperative of the Problem Population

9.7 The Colonial Past in the Globalized Future

9.8 Decolonizing Disability

9.9 Conclusion: Desiring Other Maps

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Chapter 10 The Harvesting of Intellectuals and Intellectual Labor: The University System as a Reconstructed/Continued Colonial Space for the Acquisition of Knowledge

10.1 The Harvesting and Planting of Knowledge: A Plantational Approach

10.2 A Historic Shift in Valued Labor: Experiences Within the African Diaspora

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Chapter 11 Building Anticolonial Spaces for Global Education: Challenges and Reflections

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Anticolonial Education

11.3 Anticolonial Global Education

11.4 EDEC 301

11.5 Risk and Engagement: The Affective Challenges of Anticolonial Learning

11.6 PRAXIS

11.7 Conclusion: Reflections on Lessons Learned

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Chapter 12 The Eighteenth Brumaire of Gaius Baltar: Colonialism Reimagined in Battlestar Galactica

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Afterword

Index