Bringing in the land: Indigenizing intersectionality

In this response-commentary of Sirma Bilge's article ‘Intersectionality in interregnum: A conjunctural keyword analysis’, I envision a renewed line of inquiry, pedagogy, and curriculum development in US Sociology that expands and indigenizes the standard race/gender/class intersectionality model to include land and land dispossession to make ‘intersectional imperialism’ more visible to US sociologists. Key concepts from Indigenous Studies literatures are used to discuss the connections between ‘settler simultaneity’ and anti-indigenous racism at US Land Grant universities, heteropatriarchy and settler colonial domination, the global color line of racial capitalism and racial modernity, and the history of Indigenous removal, Indigenous land dispossession, and the cultural logic of elimination of Natives in the development and wealth of US Higher Education. I offer a new representation of the intersectionality Venn diagram that embeds intersecting circles of race, gender, and class on the LAND, particularly the United States, which is depicted as a turtle island.