ABSTRACT
The age of settler colonialism may be behind us, but its legacies are everywhere to be seen. Southern Africa's settler states have fallen to the force of nationalist movements and international opprobrium, but conflicts over the land, loyalty, and economic standing of the formerly dominant settler minority still wrack their successor majoritarian regimes. Repatriated settler populations remain touchstones for memories and controversies about the imperial past in Japan and France alike; Koreans and Taiwanese, Algerians and Kenyans live with the railroads and commodities, and sometimes the languages and laws, these alien masters brought with them. And if revolutions, immigration, and indigenous demographic collapse turned the new world settler colonies into nations, aboriginal or first-nation claims to land rights and cultural autonomy will not go away.
