Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership

Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership

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Author/Contributor(s): Bhandar, Brenna
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 05/25/2018
Binding: Paperback
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Brenna Bhandar examines how the emergence of modern property law contributed to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies, showing how the colonial appropriation of indigenous lands depends upon ideologies of European racial superiority as well as legal narratives that equated civilized life with English concepts of property.