Unsettling America : the uses of Indianness in the 21st century

King, C. Richard 1968- (Author).

Summary: "Unsettling America explores the cultural politics of Indianness in the 21st century. It concerns itself with representations of Native Americans in popular culture, the news media, and political debate and the ways in which American Indians have interpreted, challenged, and reworked key ideas about them. It examines the means and meanings of competing uses and understandings of Indianness, unraveling their significance for broader understandings of race and racism, sovereignty and self-determination, and the possibilities of decolonization."--Publisher's website.

Record details

ISBN: 9781442216679
ISBN: 1442216670
ISBN: 9781442216693
ISBN: 1442216697
Physical Description: print
xix, 143 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2013]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

How Indianness matters now : an introduction -- pt. 1. Old battles -- George Bush may not like Black people, but no one gives a damn about indigenous peoples : visibility and Indianness after the hurricanes -- Embattled images in the marketplace : commodity racism, media literacy, and struggles over Indianness -- pt. 2. Ongoing wars -- On being a warrior : race, gender, and American Indian imagery in sport -- Defending civilization from the hostiles : notes on the Ward Churchill affair -- Always enemy combatants? : the killing of Osama bin Laden and the Native American struggle for humanity -- pt. 3. New fronts -- Borrowing power : racial metaphors and the struggle against American Indian mascots -- Alter/native heroes : Native American books and the struggle for self-definition -- De/scribing squ*w : indigenous women and imperial idioms in the United States -- Reclaiming Indianness : notes toward a conclusion.