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  • The Politics of Kinship

    Race, Family, Governance

    by Mark Rifkin ...
    What if we understood the idea of family as central to representing alternative forms of governance as expressions of racial deviance? In The Politics of Kinship, Mark Rifkin shows how ideologies of family, including notions of kinship, recast Indigenous and other forms of collective self-organization and self-determination as disruptive racial tendencies in need of state containment and ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Queer and Trans Studies

    by Mark Rifkin ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    The book provides a detailed analysis of important work in queer and trans studies over the past thirty years. Stretching from early figures (such as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, Cathy Cohen, José Muñoz, and Sandy Stone) to the most recent scholarship, it offers a rich account of these fields' major ideas and contributions while indicating how they have evolved. Centering race and empire, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Beyond Settler Time

    Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination

    by Mark Rifkin ...
    What does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present? In Beyond Settler Time Mark Rifkin investigates the dangers of seeking to include Indigenous peoples within settler temporal frameworks. Claims that Native peoples should be recognized as coeval with Euro-Americans, Rifkin argues, implicitly treat dominant non-native ideologies and institutions as the basis for defining time itself ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Speaking for the People

    Native Writing and the Question of Political Form

    by Mark Rifkin ...
    In Speaking for the People Mark Rifkin examines nineteenth-century Native writings to reframe contemporary debates around Indigenous recognition, refusal, and resurgence. Rifkin shows how works by Native authors (William Apess, Elias Boudinot, Sarah Winnemucca, and Zitkala-Ša) illustrate the intellectual labor involved in representing modes of Indigenous political identity and placemaking. These ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • When Did Indians Become Straight?

    Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty

    by Mark Rifkin ...
    When Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between contested U.S. notions of normality and shifting forms of Native American governance and self-representation. Examining a wide range of texts (including captivity narratives, fiction, government documents, and anthropological tracts), Mark Rifkin offers a cultural and literary history of the ways Native peoples have been ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Fictions of Land and Flesh

    Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation

    by Mark Rifkin ...
    In Fictions of Land and Flesh Mark Rifkin explores the impasses that arise in seeking to connect Black and Indigenous movements, turning to speculative fiction to understand those difficulties and envision productive ways of addressing them. Against efforts to subsume varied forms of resistance into a single framework in the name of solidarity, Rifkin argues that Black and Indigenous political ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Erotics of Sovereignty

    Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination

    by Mark Rifkin ...
    In 1970 the Nixon administration inaugurated a new era in federal Indian policy. No more would the U.S. government seek to deny and displace Native peoples or dismantle Native governments; from now on federal policy would promote “the Indian’s sense of autonomy without threatening his sense of community.”In The Erotics of Sovereignty, Mark Rifkin offers a telling perspective on what such a policy ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Settler Common Sense

    Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance

    by Mark Rifkin ...
    In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls “settler common sense,” taking for granted the legal and political structure through which Native peoples continue to be dispossessed.In analyzing Nathaniel Hawthorne ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Manifesting America

    The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space

    by Mark Rifkin ...
    Manifesting America explores how Native American and Mexican American writers use various kinds of nonfiction to challenge the ideology of manifest destiny. ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

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    An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

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    "No one should miss this beautiful legend." —Tony HillermanVelma Wallis’s award-winning, bestselling tale about two elderly Native American women who must fend for themselves during a harsh Alaskan winterBased on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately ... Read more

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  • Going Native

    Indians in the American Cultural Imagination

    by Shari M. Huhndorf ...
    Since the 1800's, many European Americans have relied on Native Americans as models for their own national, racial, and gender identities. Displays of this impulse include world's fairs, fraternal organizations, and films such as Dances with Wolves. Shari M. Huhndorf uses cultural artifacts such as these to examine the phenomenon of "going native," showing its complex relations to social crises in ... Read more

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  • Indian Givers

    How Native Americans Transformed the World

    by Jack Weatherford ...
    An utterly compelling story of how the cultural, social, and political practices of Native Americans transformed the way life is lived throughout the world, with a new introduction by the author“As entertaining as it is thoughtful . . . Few contemporary writers have Weatherford’s talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate.”—The Washington PostAfter 500 years, the world’s ... Read more

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