Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation

Abstract

ally focuses on the settler aspect. Does the superior group identity work of settler identity not intersect with white racial identity? Denis focuses on the racialization of Indigenous people by white settlers yet does not explore the racialization of the white settlers themselves. It is my opinion that more of a ‘‘both/and’’ strategy would have strengthened his analysis, exploring more deeply both white and settler identity and how this identity affects white settlers’ understandings. Nevertheless, as more and more graves of Indigenous children are uncovered from the residential school system, and as white nonIndigenous Canadians continue to ‘‘wake up’’ to the experience that is the horrifying and often incomprehensible history and ongoing reality of settler colonialism, Denis’s work adds a crucial lens for attempting to understand these horrors and the relationships that follow. It is the individuallevel understandings of Indigenous people and relations that can uphold or challenge the oppressive ideologies of settler colonialism. Canada at a Crossroads is not only an important read for settlers who are looking to reflect on their own understandings of Indigenous people, but also for sociologists who want to expand their own inclusion and analysis of settler colonialism in their work. Denis provides us with a wellresearched, detailed, and clear understanding of how Indigenous and white settlers understand one another and what may unite or divide us. And, like all good research, the book left me with questions and a deep desire for even more insight and reflection into this important line of inquiry. Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation, by Mona El-Ghobashy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 390 pp. $28.00 paper. ISBN: 9781503628151.