settler colonialism

English

Noun

settler colonialism (uncountable)

  1. A form of colonialism in which colonizers seek to displace indigenous populations from their land in order to establish permanent settlements of their own.
    • 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian‎[1], archived from the original on 3 December 2021:
      It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race.
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