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- Title
Necro-Settler Coloniality in Texan Mythology and Identity: Forgetting the Alamo.
- Authors
Hill, Chaney
- Abstract
The specific socio-historical setting of settler coloniality that I am interested in revolves around the successful rebellion that established Texas as a settler nation in 1836 and how Texas's annexation to the larger settler colonial nation, the United States, in 1845 did not result in a loss of Texas's former national character.[6] As the site of inspiration for the rebellion and continued claims to land and lineage, I argue that the national character of Texas is maintained and cultivated through the memorialization and monumentalizing of the Alamo. Following the murder of Houston native George Floyd in the summer of 2020, the Alamo Cenotaph was spray-painted with a message calling for the dissolution of white supremacy, profit over people, and the Alamo (fig. 1).[23] After the Cenotaph was spray-painted, the TITFF came fully armed to "protect" the Alamo once again. While the Alamo serves as the preeminent site of coloniality of power, the Alamo Cenotaph triangulates settler death, settler claims to land and occupation, and settler coloniality.
- Subjects
MYTHOLOGY; COLLECTIVE memory; COLONIES; PUBLIC demonstrations; CONFEDERATE monuments; WAR memorials; JIM Crow laws
- Publication
Western American Literature, 2022, Vol 57, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0043-3462
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/wal.2022.0042