Individuality Incorporated - Indians and the Multicultural Modern

Informationen zum Autor Joel Pfister Klappentext Explores the drive of whites to "individualize" Indians -- showing them how they should pursue happiness, find the meaning of life and how they should labor. Zusammenfassung Explores the drive of whites to "individualize" Indians -- showing them how they should pursue happiness! find the meaning of life and how they should labour Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Lessons Indians Can Teach American Studies about the Role of Individuality 1 PART ONE>Categorizing and Institutionalizing Indians and Individuals 29 1 Carlisle as Individualizing Factory: Making Indians, Individuals, Workers 31 2 The School of Savagery: “Indian” Formations of Subjectivity and Carlisle 97 PART TWO Multicultural Modernity Incorporated 133 3 Modernist Multiculturalism: Lawrence, Luhan, and the White Therapeutic Indianizing of “Lost” White Individuality 135 4 Indians Inc.:Collier’s New Deal Diversity Management 185 Afterward: Diversity Incorporated and World Americanization 229 Appendix 1 Notes on Natives and Socialism 253 Appendix 2 A Proposal to Reopen Carlisle 257 Abbreviations in Notes 259 Notes 261 Index 321

Product details

• Authors: Joel Pfister, Pfister, Joel Pfister, Joel/ Pease Pfister
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.02.2004
• EAN: 9780822332541
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3254-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie