The essays in this forum originated out of a roundtable at the American Studies Association meeting on the occupied territory of the Kanaka Maoli (Hawaii) in 2019, sponsored by Environment and Planning D: Society & Space.¹ Our roundtable was conceptualized around an open question about Black feminism’s relation to “settler colonialism,” a term that is understood as a critical framework, categorical description, and/or narrative genre.² Among our questions: does Black feminism intervene in a settler colonial critical discourse that has become the “preferred discourse for examining colonialism in North America” (King, 2019: 56)?³ Does Black feminism even need settler colonial critique? Or does it already offer an immanent critique of conquest, accumulation, dispossession, disposability, and erasure? These are hardly neutral questions, and they speak both to the broadening appeal of Black feminist theory across the humanities and social sciences, alongside growing disenchantment with the white male center of settler colonial studies. Our panel was met with feedback that reflected some of these developments. In the Q&A, an audience member asked how relevant the positionality of non-Black people of color (and presumably white people) was for advancing Black feminist thought. This was a question concerned with the appropriation of Black feminism by non-Black scholars. We also received criticism about the pairing of Black feminism and settler colonialism, a critical framing they felt validated Black feminism only by routing it through a white settler colonial paradigm oriented around the construction of an idealized Native subject. In other words, Black feminism should be understood as originating its own critique of settler colonialism. Our contributions do not aim to resolve these concerns but rather to sit with their indeterminacy. In place of resolution, we offer our own critical investments, whose areas of overlap and divergence reframe the norms of coalition.

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关于内在性和不确定性：黑人女权主义和塞特勒殖民主义

该论坛的论文来自于2019年美国研究协会在卡纳卡毛利（夏威夷）被占领土上举行的一次圆桌会议，由环境与规划D：社会与空间组织赞助。¹我们的圆桌会议围绕一个关于黑人女权主义与“定居者殖民主义”的关系的悬而未决的概念进行了概念化，该术语被理解为关键框架，分类描述和/或叙事类型。²在我们的问题中：黑人女性主义是否干预了定居者的殖民批判性话语，该话语已成为“北美审查殖民主义的首选话语”（King，2019：56）？³黑人女权主义甚至需要定居者殖民批评？还是已经对征服，积累，处置，处置和擦除提出了内在的批判？这些问题很难说是中立的，既说明黑人女权主义理论在人文科学和社会科学领域的广泛吸引力，又对白人白人定居者殖民地研究中心越来越持怀疑态度。我们的小组收到了反映其中一些进展的反馈。在问答中，一位听众问，非黑人有色人种（大概是白人）的地位与推进黑人女权主义思想有何关联。这是一个与非黑人学者挪用黑人女权主义有关的问题。我们还收到了关于黑人女权主义与移民殖民主义的结合的批评，他们认为，在一个关键的框架中，只有通过围绕着理想化的土著主题的建设的白人定居者殖民范式来引导黑人女权主义，才能证实黑人女权主义。换句话说，黑人女权主义应该被理解为对移民殖民主义的批判。我们的贡献并不是要解决这些问题，而是要使它们具有不确定性。我们提供自己的重要投资来代替解决方案，这些投资的重叠和分歧领域重新构筑了联盟规范。