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Hannah Manshel

Hannah Manshel

Hannah Manshel writes and teaches about settler colonialism, slavery, and the violence of the US legal system, primarily in the 19th century. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Hawai’i Mānoa. icon

Settler Fantasies, Televised

By Hannah Manshel

House-hunting and home-improvement TV shows are premised on the settler fantasy of property ownership—and that fantasy’s relationship to whiteness.

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