Glen Coulthard – Red Skin, White Masks

Studies in Political Economy Book Prize

Toronto – 31 May 2017

Glen Coulthard spoke on issues arising from his celebrated recent work and from subsequent developments in academe, activism and the links between the two.

Glen Coulthard is Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), winner of the 2016 Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Frantz Fanon Award for Most Outstanding Book, the Canadian Political Science Association’s CB Macpherson Award for Best Book in Political Theory published in 2014/15, and the Studies in Political Economy Award for Best Book, 2016.

Introduction by Jamie Lawson and Susan Spronk. Greetings by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

This was recorded at the Society for Socialist Studies congress 2017, visit their channel.