The Structural Thesis
Settler colonialism, Patrick Wolfe argued, is a structure, not an event. Unlike extractive colonialism, which exploits indigenous labor, settler colonial formations are organized around a logic of elimination — the replacement of indigenous societies with settler ones. This is distinct from racism as ordinarily understood: it is a territorial project that operates through land, law, and lineage.
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