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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2019

Esme G. Murdock
Esme G. Murdock*
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Department of Philosophy, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, California92182
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Corresponding author. Email: emurdock@sdsu.edu
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Abstract

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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Hypatia , Volume 35 , Special Issue 1: Indigenizing and Decolonizing Feminist Philosophy , Winter 2020 , pp. 190 - 203
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Copyright © by Hypatia, Inc. 2019

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