ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how settler colonialism has produced social hierarchies and taxonomies that have influenced ongoing genocidal practice. By examining the conceptual frameworks of race, gender, and sexuality, the chapter challenges the binary frameworks and mythical force of settler logic that marginalizes and disenfranchises non-White subjects. The chapter traces the roots of Whiteness in private property and patriarchy as central defining characteristics of the settler-colonial project. Alternative frameworks beyond the dualities of hierarchy and taxonomy are proposed using feminist, immanent, and non-dualistic understandings of difference.
