Diaspora and Colonialization
In their review of the meanings of “diaspora” as geographers use the term, Rios and Adiv note that “the term has its Western beginnings in the Jewish diaspora communities, extending to groups “such as the Armenian, Chinese, Greek, Indian, Kurdish, Palestinian, Parsi, and Sikh, whose experiences of expatriation, institution building, cultural continuity, and refusal to relinquish their collective identities have demarcated them from mere immigrants”. The term has come to mean a group of people that migrated or were expelled from their historic homeland out into different parts of the world. As described in a glossary developed by PBS as part of its Ralph Bunche documentary and educational project,“colonialism (and imperialism) refer to a system whereby more powerful and industrialized nations control, by force or other means, weaker regions for the benefit of the dominant power.” These definitions are interesting on two levels. First, they help lay out some of the ways in which the application of power by one group over another is a deeply rooted part of the system by which racial/ethnic identities and systems of advantage and disadvantage linked to those created identities are formed and maintained. Second, these terms are interesting for what they don’t say, as well as what they do – e.g. failing to name Western European white culture as complicit both historically and now. Resources in this section delve further into both the historical and current implications of diaspora and colonialization.
- Truth-Telling and Decolonization
- Decolonizing Antiracism
- Migration Policy Institute
- Not an Indian Tradition: The Sexual Colonization of Native Peoples
- Political Discourse Theories of Colonialism and Post-Colonialism
- The Culture of Diaspora in Post-Colonial Web
- Resisting Colonialism
- Postcolonial / Decolonial Theories
- Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy
- 14 African Countries Forced to Pay Colonial Tax for the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization
- The Colonialism That is Settled and the Colonialism That Never Happened
- Decolonialization: Indigeneity, Education, & Society
- What Do We Mean When We Say Colonized?
- The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes
- Cultural Safety: People's Experience with Oppression
- A Nation Built on the Back of Slavery and Racism
- The Real Thanksgiving Story
- #StandingRockSyllabus
- Decolonizing the Sacred
- Black Land And Its Role In The Liberation of Black People
- Decolonial International Network
- Colonialism
- Moving Targets: An Analysis of Global Forced Migration
- Decolonization is not a metaphor
- Why Racial Justice Work Needs to Address Settler Colonialism and Native Rights
- The Disruption of White Supremacy
- First Peoples, Second Class Treatment: The role of racism in the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples in Canada
- Honor Native Land: A Guide and Call to Acknowledgment
- Stolen People on Stolen Land: Decolonizing While Black
- Remembering 1619
- Fascism & Anti-Fascism: A Decolonial Perspective
- #HonorNativeLand Guide
- Decolonizing Together: Moving Beyond a Politics of Solidarity Toward a Practice of Decolonization
- Colonialism on the Ground
- Philanthropy Needs to Take a Hard Look at its Colonial Roots
- Unsettling America Decolonization in Theory & Practice
- Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
- Decolonizing Together: Moving Beyond a Politics of Solidarity Toward a Practice of Decolonization
- We Were Children - The Traumatic Legacy of Residential Schools
- The 1619 Project
- Colonialism: Then and Now - Video
- Gold Chains:The Hidden History of Slavery in America
- Are you planning to do a Land Acknowledgement?
- Decolonization: A Resource for Indigenous Solidarity
- Why Racial Justice Work Needs to Address Settler Colonialism and Native Rights
- Beautiful Rising
