how settler colonials are coming to terms with painful family histories
- Written by Victoria Grieve Williams, Adjunct Professor, RMIT University
There is a quiet movement among settler colonials in Australia and the US to critically examine their family histories as a way of re-examining the impact of centuries of dispossession and slavery of Indigenous peoples.
Critical family histories enable a shift from celebratory tropes of benign settlement to deep considerations of legitimacy. The...





