Resisting Racism, Extraction and Dispossession. The methods Stalin used to eliminate the kulaks were dispossession, deportation and execution. This process included dispossession of wealthy citizens and peasants. Historian M. A. Serpas posits the displacement and dispossession rates as a major factor. The root cause of the violent outbreaks lay in the fear of territorial dispossession. Baker's attack facilitated the dispossession of the Blackfeet nation. Accumulation by dispossession is a concept presented by the Marxist geographer David Harvey. It relies upon a process of often violent dispossession. David Harvey calls this accumulation by dispossession. In that sense, the profit is created by dispossession of peoples or nations. Many of these works are concerned with the geopolitics of entitlements and dispossession. Even before 1895, however, Britain's presence in Kenya was marked by dispossession and violence. This effort was stymied, however, by local resistance to the forced dispossession of the land. Edith Wharton conceived of houses, dwelling places, in extended imagery of shelter and dispossession. That is, dispossession of folklore (knowledge, wisdom, practice) through intellectual property rights.