The magic children : racial identity at the end of the age of race Cover Image

Book

The magic children : racial identity at the end of the age of race / Roger Echo-Hawk.

Summary:

One day at the end of the twentieth century, Roger Echo-Hawk decided to give up being an Indian. After becoming an American Indian historian, he started to question our widespread reliance on a concept of race that the academy had long-since discredited, and embarked on a personal and professional journey to giving up race himself. This passionate book offers a powerful meditation on racialism and a manifesto for creating a world without it. Echo-Hawk examines personal identity, social movements, and policy-NAGPRA, Indian law, Red Pride, indigenous archaeology-showing how they rely on race and how they should move beyond it.

Record details

ISBN: 159874576X
ISBN: 9781598745740 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1598745743 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781598745757 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1598745751 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781598745764 (eISBN)
ISBN: 159874576X (eISBN)
Physical Description: 175 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

In the fifteenth dream -- Nothing is real -- The haunted statue -- The bear enchantments. The enchanted monkey ; In the seventh dream ; The moon-castle dreams ; The seeker ; Dreams like mine ; In an enchanted garden ; I escape from Egypt ; In the eighth dream -- Slowly unraveling. Circuitous tomorrows, refinished ; The obsidian mirror ; Reflections on repatriation, 1997 ; Reflections on racism ; The heroic hatchlings -- The enchanted coop. In the realm of the bears ; The magic children closet chickens ; Wouldn't we wouldn't we wouldn't ; Is race good? ; Through Vine's looking glass, darkly ; The past, destiny's chicken ; Get yourself decolonized! ; If Ward Churchill is Indian, aren't you too, Chicken Nuggets? ; Gameplay ; The saga of "Kee-wuch-oo-ta-kaa" ; Deep time, Chicken Freeko ; I find wisdom in the fringes ; If anyone asks ; The coop gets blumenbached and neverminded ; I peer into Chicken Noodle's mirror -- In the ninth dream -- In the land of rangers and bears and Hispanics -- In the tenth dream.