Unsettling America - The Uses of Indianness in the 21st Century

Informationen zum Autor By C. Richard King Klappentext Unsettling America explores the uses of Indianness in the twenty-first century. It concerns itself with images of Native Americans and the ways in which American Indians have interpreted, challenged, and reworked them. Its close readings offer deeper understandings of racism, culture, and sovereignty. Zusammenfassung Unsettling America explores the uses of Indianness in the twenty-first century. It concerns itself with images of Native Americans and the ways in which American Indians have interpreted! challenged! and reworked them. Its close readings offer deeper understandings of racism! culture! and sovereignty. Inhaltsverzeichnis How Indianness Matters Now: An IntroductionI. Old Battles1. George Bush May Not Like Black People, But No One Gives a Damn AboutIndigenous Peoples: Visibility and Indianness after the Hurricanes2. Embattled Images in the Marketplace: Commodity Racism, Media Literacy, and Struggles over IndiannessII. Ongoing Wars3. On Being a Warrior: Race, Gender, and American Indian Imagery in Sport4. Defending Civilization from the Hostiles: Notes on the Ward Churchill Affair5. Always Enemy Combatants? The Killing of Osama bin Laden and the Native American Struggle for HumanityIII. New Fronts6. Borrowing Power: Racial Metaphors and the Struggle Against American Indian Mascots7. Alter/native Heroes: Native American Books, and the Struggle for Self-Definition8. De/Scribing Squ*w: Indigenous Women and Imperial Idioms in the United StatesReclaiming Indianness: Notes Toward a Conclusions

Product details

• Authors: C Richard King, C. Richard King, Professor C. Richard King
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9781442216686
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-1668-6
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, American Studies, 21st Century, Indigenous Peoples, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Relating to Native American people, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies