How to Use settler colonialism in a Sentence

settler colonialism

noun
  • This fragmented existence is a direct outgrowth of the logics of settler colonialism.
    — Literary Hub august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Mahmood’s work focuses on settler colonialism and human rights, as well as Marxism and the history of war and genocide in Africa.
    — Makena Gera, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Potawatomi philosopher Kyle Whyte theorizes settler colonialism as a form of environmental injustice.
    — JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025
  • In Conversation Examining settler colonialism, the illusion of progress, and what actually resulted from the Oslo Accords.
    — Lit Hub Daily, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Fully reckoning with digital settler colonialism necessitates considering its various manifestations and the forces that sustain it—as well as—most importantly—examples of resistance.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Here, settler colonialism is understood as a form of environmental injustice, where pollution and degraded landscapes diminish Indigenous quality of life and ability to be in right relationship with the environment.
    — JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Digital settler colonialism renders digital terrain as an extension of physical spaces ripe for colonization, relying on imperial sanction to target anti-colonial subjects and their supporters as enemies that must be neutralized by any means necessary.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • There are acid critiques of settler colonialism alongside tributes to the majesty of the American landscape, sober revisitations of enslavement alongside hopeful pleas for liberation, bitter denouncements of intervention in wars abroad alongside quaint homages to homespun Americanness.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 28 May 2026
  • The book details the life and otherworldly visions of Black Elk, the Oglala Lakota healer and shaman who bore witness to the horrors of white settler colonialism firsthand, including at the battles of Little Big Horn (1876) and Wounded Knee (1890).
    — Shannon Taggart, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026

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