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5 (De)constituting Settler Subjects: A Retrospective Critical Race-Decolonizing Account

  • Joseph Pugliese
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Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies
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Abstract

What were the pedagogical forces that were operating in the construction of my racialized subject positions with the context of the Australian white settler state? In this chapter, I attempt to answer this question by deploying critical race-decolonizing theories to trace a genealogy of forces that were operative in the constitution of my subjectivity. In the first instance, I proceed to unravel a genealogy that preceded my family’s migration to the Australian colony. I work to reconstruct this genealogy to materialize the prior forces of settler colonialism and race that already inscribed me as a subject and which were instrumental as push factors in my family’s migration. I then proceed to unpack the racialized pedagogy of the white settler state that I was compelled to experience as a non-Anglo diasporic-settler child. My personal account is located in the practice of critical race theorists, who use storytelling and counter-storytelling through personal stories as a critical method to recount experiences with racism. By examining two school textbooks that were part of my miseducation, I trace how these texts pedagogically laboured to inculcate a range of hegemonic values that normalized the racialized version of the settler state.

Abstract

What were the pedagogical forces that were operating in the construction of my racialized subject positions with the context of the Australian white settler state? In this chapter, I attempt to answer this question by deploying critical race-decolonizing theories to trace a genealogy of forces that were operative in the constitution of my subjectivity. In the first instance, I proceed to unravel a genealogy that preceded my family’s migration to the Australian colony. I work to reconstruct this genealogy to materialize the prior forces of settler colonialism and race that already inscribed me as a subject and which were instrumental as push factors in my family’s migration. I then proceed to unpack the racialized pedagogy of the white settler state that I was compelled to experience as a non-Anglo diasporic-settler child. My personal account is located in the practice of critical race theorists, who use storytelling and counter-storytelling through personal stories as a critical method to recount experiences with racism. By examining two school textbooks that were part of my miseducation, I trace how these texts pedagogically laboured to inculcate a range of hegemonic values that normalized the racialized version of the settler state.

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  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Series Editors’ Preface vii
  4. List of Figures and Tables ix
  5. Notes on Contributors x
  6. Foreword xvii
  7. Acknowledgements xxi
  8. Introduction: Articulating a Critical Racial and Decolonial Liberatory Imperative for Our Times 1
  9. Going beyond ‘Decolonize the Curriculum’
  10. Being Woke to Anti-Intellectualism: Indigenous Resistance and Futures 13
  11. Decolonizing Australian Universities: Why Embedding Indigenous Content in the Curriculum Fails That Task 32
  12. Let’s Get Critical: Thinking with and beyond the ‘Dead White Men’ of Social Theory 49
  13. (De)constituting Settler Subjects: A Retrospective Critical Race-Decolonizing Account 62
  14. Being in the Classroom
  15. Shedding the Colonial Skin and Digging Deep as Decolonial Praxis 79
  16. Racially Literate Teacher Education: (Im)possibilities for Disrupting the Racial Silence 93
  17. In Conversation with Helena Liu: Redeeming Leadership – a Project of Critical Hope 111
  18. The Provocateur as Decolonial Praxis 123
  19. Doing Race in the Disciplines
  20. Decolonizing the Curriculum in the Colonial Debtscape 137
  21. Race-ing the Law 152
  22. Assembling Decolonial Anti-Racist Praxis from the Margins: Reflections from Critical Community Psychology 164
  23. Unravelling the Model Minority Myth and Breaking the Racial Silence: A Collaborative Critical Auto-Ethnography 178
  24. Counter-Storytelling as Critical Praxis 190
  25. Building Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies beyond the Academy
  26. Incantation: Insurgent Texts as Decolonial Feminist Praxis 205
  27. Race at Work within Social Policy 227
  28. ‘The Sole Source of Truth’: Harnessing the Power of the Spoken Word through Indigenous Community Radio 246
  29. Resistance, Solidarity, Survival
  30. Death Can Be Clarifying: Considering the Forces That Move Us 261
  31. In Conversation with Yassir Morsi: Slow Ontology as Resistance 276
  32. Teaching Race, Conceptualizing Solidarity 290
  33. In Conversation with Alana Lentin: Racial Literacy – an Act of Solidarity 305
  34. Teacher/Decolonizer 317
  35. Index 322
https://doi.org/10.56687/9781529234442-010

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Series Editors’ Preface vii
  4. List of Figures and Tables ix
  5. Notes on Contributors x
  6. Foreword xvii
  7. Acknowledgements xxi
  8. Introduction: Articulating a Critical Racial and Decolonial Liberatory Imperative for Our Times 1
  9. Going beyond ‘Decolonize the Curriculum’
  10. Being Woke to Anti-Intellectualism: Indigenous Resistance and Futures 13
  11. Decolonizing Australian Universities: Why Embedding Indigenous Content in the Curriculum Fails That Task 32
  12. Let’s Get Critical: Thinking with and beyond the ‘Dead White Men’ of Social Theory 49
  13. (De)constituting Settler Subjects: A Retrospective Critical Race-Decolonizing Account 62
  14. Being in the Classroom
  15. Shedding the Colonial Skin and Digging Deep as Decolonial Praxis 79
  16. Racially Literate Teacher Education: (Im)possibilities for Disrupting the Racial Silence 93
  17. In Conversation with Helena Liu: Redeeming Leadership – a Project of Critical Hope 111
  18. The Provocateur as Decolonial Praxis 123
  19. Doing Race in the Disciplines
  20. Decolonizing the Curriculum in the Colonial Debtscape 137
  21. Race-ing the Law 152
  22. Assembling Decolonial Anti-Racist Praxis from the Margins: Reflections from Critical Community Psychology 164
  23. Unravelling the Model Minority Myth and Breaking the Racial Silence: A Collaborative Critical Auto-Ethnography 178
  24. Counter-Storytelling as Critical Praxis 190
  25. Building Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies beyond the Academy
  26. Incantation: Insurgent Texts as Decolonial Feminist Praxis 205
  27. Race at Work within Social Policy 227
  28. ‘The Sole Source of Truth’: Harnessing the Power of the Spoken Word through Indigenous Community Radio 246
  29. Resistance, Solidarity, Survival
  30. Death Can Be Clarifying: Considering the Forces That Move Us 261
  31. In Conversation with Yassir Morsi: Slow Ontology as Resistance 276
  32. Teaching Race, Conceptualizing Solidarity 290
  33. In Conversation with Alana Lentin: Racial Literacy – an Act of Solidarity 305
  34. Teacher/Decolonizer 317
  35. Index 322
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