Abstract
Many historians and theorists of race politics in the United States view Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia in the 17th century as a foundational moment in the creation of whiteness, of being white as political identity. Bruyneel re-examines this collective memory of Bacon’s Rebellion to draw Indigenous peoples and settler colonialism out of the background of this popular narrative to explain how it is white settler masculine identity that is produced at this moment. Bruyneel argues that we need to put the politics of land as well as labor at the center of our grasp of the meaning of this period. As well, he links the role of domination of land and that over bodies in the paired role of property and patriarchy and the formation of US settler colonial states.
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