Settler Colonial City: Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis
David Hugill, "Settler Colonial City: Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis"
English | ISBN: 1517904803 | 2021 | 216 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1517904803 | 2021 | 216 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Revealing the enduring link between settler colonization and the making of modern Minneapolis
Colonial relations are often excluded from discussions of urban politics and are viewed instead as part of a regrettable past. In Settler Colonial City, David Hugill confronts this culture of organized forgetting by arguing that Minnesota’s largest city is enduringly bound up with the power dynamics of settler-colonial politics. Examining several distinct Minneapolis sites, Settler Colonial City tracks how settler-colonial relations were articulated alongside substantial growth in the Twin Cities Indigenous community during the second half of the twentieth century—creating new geographies of racialized advantage.
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