Sovereign acts : contesting colonialism across indigenous nations and Latinx America

Summary: This paradigm-shifting work examines the new ways colonized peoples resist subjugation and reclaim rights and political power--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780816532124
ISBN: 0816532125
Physical Description: print
ix, 396 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Frances Negrón-Muntaner -- Contested sovereignties : Puerto Rico and American Samoa / Fa'anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa and Adriana María Garriga-López -- Indigenous peoples and the politics of recognition / Glen Coulthard -- The decolonial deadlock in Guam / Michael Lujan Bevacqua -- Recognizing native Hawaiians : reality bites / Davianna Pomaika'i McGregor -- Chairmen, presidents, and princesses : the Navajo Nation, gender, and the politics of tradition / Jennifer Nez Denetdale -- Same-sex marriage in the Cherokee Nation : toward decolonial queer indigeneities / Jessica A. F. Harkins -- Bloodline is all I need?: sovereignty and Hawaiian hip-hop / Stephanie Nohelani Teves -- Of shadows and doubts : white supremacy, decolonization, and Black-Indian relations / Brian Klopotek -- The look of sovereignty : style and politics in the young lords / Frances Negrón-Muntaner -- Sovereignty still? / Madeline Román -- Indigenizing Agamben : rethinking sovereignty in light of the "peculiar" status of Native Peoples / Mark Rifkin -- King of the line : the sovereign acts of Jean-Michael Basquiat / Frances Negrón-Muntaner with Yasmin Ramírez.