Resistance and Other Pathologized Products of Madness

Impositions of madness revisit a founding dispossession that undergirds settler colonialism in the Americas as the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands and resources and African slave removals. . . . In taking up this diagnostic in-between, both works endeavor to rescue madness from the cultural work it performs as pathologizing of so-called Black barbarity and so-called Indigenous primitivism.

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This passage points out the impositions of madness that contribute to settler colonialism in the Americas, involving the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and slave removals. Both works aim to rescue madness from its cultural function of pathologizing Black barbarity and Indigenous primitivism.