Whiteness severs victims from land claims and legitimates ownership

Evidence

While bestowing myriad privileges upon those who possess it, whiteness disconnects its victims from their historical claims and grievances. In addition to erasing indigenous people from their land, it erases their legal stake in the land and asserts itself, and those who possess it, as the rightful owners of the land. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 906

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Harrison’s memoir frames Rhodesian land acquisition as earned by white work ethic — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 48; White subject positions were both cause and effect of nation-building and land-taking — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 754; Resurrecting settler identities weakens rather than strengthens white land claims. — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 8 (+2 more)