%0 Journal Article
%T On the way to decolonization in a settler colony: Re
%A Kristie Dotson
%J AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
%@ 1174-1740
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1177180118783301
%X In this paper, I explain Black feminist identity politics as a practice that is ¡®on the way¡¯ to settler decolonization in a US context for the fact that it makes demands that we attend to our ¡°originating¡± stories and, in doing so, 1) generate potential for difficult coalitions for decolonization in settler colonial USA and 2) promoting a range of refusals (Simpson 2014) that aid in resisting the completion of settler colonialism in North America, which is still an uncompleted project. Ultimately, I claim Black feminist identity politics, properly understood, is a practice that aids in retaining the possibility of decolonization in a settler colonial state by resisting the historical unknowing that facilitates settler futurity. It is not itself settler decolonization, but rather it is ¡°on the way¡± to such decolonization as it keeps open the need for decolonial futurity
%K US settler colonialism
%K identity politics
%K Black feminist thought
%K land education
%K politics of refusal
%K collective continuance
%K and decolonization
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1177180118783301