scholarly journals The North American Landscape

Nature ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 203 (4940) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
C. F. DAVIDSON
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
The North ◽  
American Landscape

This Land Was Made for … : (Re)Appearing Black/Brown Female Corporeality, Life, and Death

Hypatia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-203
Author(s):  
Esme G. Murdock
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The North ◽  
American Landscape ◽  
Female Corporeality ◽  
Brown Bodies

Lands and bodies are often conceptualized as exhaustible objects and property within settler-colonial and neoliberal ideologies. These conceptualizations lead to underdevelopment of understandings of lands and bodies that fall outside of these ascriptions, and also attempt to actively obscure the pervasive ways in which settler colonialism violently reinscribes itself on the North American landscape through the murder and disappearance of Black and Brown women's bodies. In this article, I will argue that the continual murder and disappearance of Black and Brown women in North America facilitate the successful functioning of ongoing settler-colonial systems and projects. This violence creates and reinforces the functionality of Black/Brown bodies as the territory upon which settler identity and futurity gains traction, indeed, requires.

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