May 11, 2024  
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Catalog 2024-25

GS 363 - Comparative Settler Colonialism: Land, the ‘Logic of Elimination,’ and Structures of Race


Settler colonial studies analyzes the relationships between indigenous peoples, settlers, and land, and the ways race, gender, and capitalism continue to structure these relationships. In addition to understanding settler frameworks and theory, we examine Indigenous knowledge systems, resistance, and resurgence. Settler societies work to erase indigenous ones and transform land into extractive resources, but indigenous communities remain - for them land is life and existence is resistance. 

Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better)
General Education: UDD Integrated Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Spring term only

Units: 3