Literacy Moment – November 2020

BIPOC = Black, Indigenous, People of Color
A BIPOC lens puts Black abolition and Native Justice in conversation and coalition with one another. It highlights their historical intersections and differences and “the common ground of Afro-descendant and Indigenous experience, such as land dispossession, political marginalization, and a shared desire for sovereignty and self-determination.”

Taken from the Introduction to the special issue on “Rethinking Blackness and Indigeneity in the Light of Settler Colonial Theory” in American Indian Culture and Research Journal: Vol. 43, No. 2 (2019) http://www.books.aisc.ucla.edu/books

In particular see, “Settler/Colonial Violences: Black and Indigenous Coalition Possibilities through Intergroup Dialogue Methodology” with Vassar’s Professor Kimberly Williams Brown!

Also available through the Vassar College Libraries – E75 .A5124

Other Resources:
Yellow Head Institute – An Indigenous Abolitionist Study Guide
The BIPOC Project – A Black, Indigenous, & People of Color Movement