Almost a decade in, Empire remains the 21st Century's dominant mode of cultural production, and North America remains at the apex of the colonial imperative. The contributors to this volume argue that, far from being a post-colonial world, the struggle for independence of polity and culture is still alive and relevant.

First comparative study of the US and Canada from an anti-colonial perspective

Introduction: The Politics of the North American Colonial in 2009.- Contemporary Anticolonialism: A Transhistorical Perspective.- Self-Determination and the Fourth World: An Introductory Survey.- Making Explicit the Jurisprudential Foundations of Multiculturalism: The Continuing Challenges of Colonial Education in US Schooling for Indigenous Education.- Paulo Freire and the Politics of Postcolonialism.- Walking Out of Colonialism One Classroom at a Time: Student Walkouts and Colonial/ Modern Disciplinarity in El Paso, Texas.- Indigenous Peoples and Black People in Canada: Settlers or Allies?.- Resistance from the Margin: Voices of African-Canadian Parents on Africentric Education.- Anticolonialism, Labor, and the Pedagogies of Community Unionism: The Case of Hotel Workers in Canada.- The Anguish of Power: Remapping Mental Diversity with an Anticolonial Compass.- The Harvesting of Intellectuals and Intellectual Labor: The University System as a Reconstructed/Continued Colonial Space for the Acquisition of Knowledge.- Building Anticolonial Spaces for Global Education: Challenges and Reflections.- The Eighteenth Brumaire of Gaius Baltar: Colonialism Reimagined in Battlestar Galactica.- Afterword.