Settler Colonial City

Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvDavid Hugill

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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. Studying the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis in the decades that followed the Second World War, Settler Colonial City demonstrates how colonial practices and mentalities shaped processes of urban reorganization, animated non-Indigenous “advocacy research,” informed a culture of racialized policing, and intertwined with a broader culture of American imperialism. It reveals how the actions, assumptions, and practices of non-Indigenous people in Minneapolis produced and enforced a racialized economy of power that directly contradicts the city’s “progressive” reputation. Ultimately, Settler Colonial City argues that the hierarchical and racist political dynamics that characterized the city’s prosperous beginnings are not exclusive to a bygone era but rather are central to a recalibrated settler-colonial politics that continues to shape contemporary cities across the United States.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-11-23
Mått140 x 216 x 25 mm
Vikt308 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagUniversity of Minnesota Press
ISBN9781517904807
UtmärkelserWinner of Settler Colonial City 2022

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ContentsPrefaceMap of MinnesotaMap of South MinneapolisIntroduction: Minneapolis as a Settler Colonial City1. Urban Change and the Colonial Relation: The Making of an ‘Indian Neighborhood’2. Liberal Anti-Racism as Political Dead End: The Limits of Non-Indigenous Advocacy 3. Cops and Counter Patrols: Racialized Policing on East Franklin Avenue4. Land Mines at Home and Abroad: American Empire in South MinneapolisEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"David Hugill's study of one American city illustrates in no uncertain terms the ways in which racial and other hierarchies of settler colonialism are literally built into the urban landscape. Deeply researched and powerfully articulate in its framing of Minneapolis's past and present, Settler Colonial City is a profoundly important work, contributing to the burgeoning literature on settler colonialism in North America and providing a model for scholarship on and in other places."-Coll Thrush, author of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place"This timely study elucidates how Minneapolis, as a settler colonial city built on Indigenous dispossession, continues to produce structural inequity through a racialized economy of power. David Hugill argues forcefully that the ongoing operations of settler colonial violence shapes postwar Minneapolis, including through a legacy of racist policing and entrenched racial disparities rooted in the history of wealth transfer through settler colonialism that defy the city’s liberal reputation."-Jean M. O'Brien, University of Minnesota "A rigorously researched and well-supported empirical contribution to the examination of settler colonialism and its contemporary continuities."-Journal of the American Planning Association"There is much for all of us to learn from these stories. It is a credit to our community for our history to be told even [if] some of it is hard to think about."-The Alley Newspaper"David Hugill’s historical geography of Minneapolis, analyzed through the lens of settler colonialism, deftly intervenes into major conversations of its time and place, including urban indigenous experiences and racialized policing ... Hugill interweaves time, place, and politics in unexpected and illuminating ways."-Historical Geography"Settler Colonial City is a quick and worthwhile read...Using a settler colonial lens in a postwar urban environment is novel, but the true strength of Settler Colonial City is the elucidation of the Minneapolis experience of the intersections between urban planning and racial discrimination."-Journal of American History"Settler Colonial City is a highly accessible book with a broad sweep that shifts geographic scales from the most localized neighborhood level out to the (perhaps unexpected) global frame of American capitalism and military power. In one substantive introduction and four subsequent chapters, it offers the reader a concise journey."-Indiana Magazine of History"This book should be necessary reading in Native American studies and critical ethnic studies. It is a deep, US-based case study, but is also instructive for scholars wishing to examine Indigenous peoples living in industrialized nations in large cities with legacies of settler colonialism."-American Indian Culture and Research Journal