Collective on Anti-Racism
3. Settlers of Colour
In Australia, we (of not First Nation descent) are all Settlers of Colour - read on to find out what that means.
Reckoning with what it means to be a Settler of Colour on stolen land can be difficult without an understanding of what it means to be a Settler of Colour in an Australian context. For many People of Colour in Australia, we are still putting into words our experiences of colonisation and imperialism - both of ourselves and our genealogies. Our migration to this country has not always been wholly voluntary. In other words, our experiences are complex. Still, we must accept the fact that despite coming from colonised lands, we have now settled on stolen land. How do we navigate this? How do we not reinforce Indigenous dispossession? It is a sensitive and complex topic and hopefully some of these resources shed some light.
Articles:
"Defining Muslim Feminist Politics through Indigenous Solidarity Activism" By Shaista Patel
"What it means for me to be a settler of colour on unceded Indigenous lands" By Jianna Faner (a Canadian Settler of Colour)
“Loving, Working, and Living on Stolen Land: People of Colour, Settler Colonialism & White Supremacy” by Sujith Xavier (a Canadian Settler of Colour)
"Who identifies as a person of colour in Australia?" by Luke Pearson
"Neocolonialism, multiculturalism and settler states" by David Mayeda and Raagini Vijaykumar
"Who Is a Settler, According to Indigenous and Black Scholars" By Ashleigh-Rae Thomas
"Black Australia to Palestine: solidarity in decolonial struggle" By Eugenia Flynn and Tasnim Sammak
"What is racial invisibility, and how do white people benefit from it?" by Luke Pearson
"World-first research confirms Australia’s forests became catastrophic fire risk after British invasion" by Michela Mariani, Michael-Shawn Fletcher & Simon Connor
"Anthropocene began with species exchange between Old and New Worlds" by Simon Lewis & Mark Maslin
"European colonisation of the Americas killed 10% of world population and caused global cooling" by Alexander Koch, Chris Brierley, Simon Lewis & Mark Maslin
"Why the Anthropocene began with European colonisation, mass slavery and the ‘great dying’ of the 16th century" by Simon Lewis & Mark Maslin
Book:
“Scary Monsters” by Michelle de Kretser
Twitter thread:
On use of the term BIPOC in Australia
Academic Articles:
"Decolonization is not a metaphor" by Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang, 2012
"Decolonizing Antiracism" Bonita Lawrence and Enakshi Dua, 2005
"Decolonizing Resistance, Challenging Colonial States" by Nandita Sharma and Cynthia Wright, 2008
A response to “Decolonizing Antiracism” - “Decolonizing Resistance, Challenging Colonial States”