Abstract

This paper positions public mass gun violence (PMGV) as
an intergenerational consequence of the violence of colonization,
coloniality, and slavery in the United States. I map how the shooter’s
white privilege, alongside his white/male fragility, combined with a
national consciousness built on an ethos of colonization and coloniality,
leads him to believe he has unearned “rights” to the social riches of
the center. 

I proffer that most of us who benefit from capitalist, neo-liberal,
patriarchal state and social institutions are complicit in co-creating the
conditions that produce PMGV’s gunboys and gunmen because in order to benefit from these institutions, we perpetuate a system of insiders and
outsiders. As illustrated, some possibilities for allaying violence are
grounded in practicing critical self-reflection and pedagogies of
discomfort.

Keywords: Colonization, public mass gun violence, white fragility, capitalism, education

How to Cite:

Glick, S., (2020) “How Colonization Fostered Public Mass Gun Violence in the US (and what Education and Society can do about it)”, International Journal of Critical Pedagogy 11(1).