Abstracts
Abstract
This paper explores possible sites for critical anti- and decolonial solidarity-building between the Black communities and the Indigenous Peoples in Canada. We leverage African Elders Critical Teachings (ElderCrits) as a discursive framework to conceptualize the interdependence required for a decolonizing solidarity work between Black and Indigenous People, and to expose how white supremacy and colonialism are maintained overtly and covertly in everyday social relations to implicate Black and Indigenous Peoples’ lives in Canada. We conceptualize ElderCrits as bodies of knowledge emerging from the shared voices, experiences, history, cultures, and viewpoints of Indigenous Elders of Africa and Turtle Island over generations because of sustained attachments to the land, culture, and nature. ElderCrits are knowledge grounded in an Indigenous person as a subject knower. ElderCrits are bodies of knowledge that are treasured and held in highest esteem by community members, and they often inform, shape, guide, organize, and regulate how community members uphold the promise of a better future. Such knowledges speak of society, nature, and culture interface, and serve as teachings that guide social behavior and action in Indigenous communities. They are appropriately termed the local cultural resource knowledge of Indigenous Elders. We draw on ElderCrits to nurture a decolonizing solidarity between Black Peoples and Indigenous Peoples in Canada to incite a resistance politics that flees and abandons the carceral projects (Harney & Moten, 2013) of anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism without leaving out the possibilities of creating new futurities based on inclusive, fair, and equitable relations.
Keywords:
- ElderCrits,
- Solidarities,
- Blacks,
- Indigenous people of Turtle Island,
- anti-Black racism,
- anti-Indigenous racism
Résumé
Cet article explore les sites possibles pour la construction d’une solidarité critique anticoloniale entre les communautés noires et les peuples indigènes du Canada. Nous nous appuyons sur les enseignements critiques des aînés africains (ElderCrits) comme cadre discursif pour conceptualiser l’interdépendance nécessaire à un travail de solidarité décolonisatrice entre les peuples noirs et les peuples autochtones et pour exposer comment la suprématie blanche et le colonialisme sont maintenus ouvertement et secrètement dans les relations sociales quotidiennes pour impliquer la vie des peuples noirs et des peuples autochtones au Canada. Nous concevons les ElderCrits comme des corpus de connaissances émergeant des voix, des expériences, de l’histoire, des cultures et des points de vue partagés par les aînés autochtones d’Afrique et de l’île de la Tortue au fil des générations, en raison de leur attachement durable à la terre, à la culture et à la nature. Les ElderCrits sont des connaissances fondées sur l’indigène en tant que sujet connaissant. Il s’agit de corpus de connaissances que les membres de la communauté chérissent et tiennent en haute estime, et qui souvent informent, façonnent, guident, organisent et réglementent la manière dont les membres de la communauté tiennent la promesse d’un avenir meilleur. Ces savoirs parlent de la société, de la nature et de l’interface culturelle et servent d’enseignements indigènes qui guident le comportement social et l’action dans les communautés indigènes. Elles sont appelées de manière appropriée « ressources culturelles locales » (local cultural resource knowledge) des aînés indigènes. Nous nous appuyons sur les ElderCrits pour nourrir une solidarité décolonisatrice entre les peuples noirs et les peuples autochtones du Canada afin d’encourager une politique de résistance qui fuit et abandonne les projets carcéraux (Harney & Moten, 2013) du racisme anti-noir et anti-autochtone sans négliger les possibilités de créer de nouveaux avenirs fondés sur des relations inclusives, justes et équitables.
Mots-clés :
- ElderCrits,
- Solidarités,
- Noirs,
- peuples autochtones de l’île de la Tortue,
- racisme anti-Noir,
- racisme anti-Indigène
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