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  • Indigenizing California Mission Art and Architecture

    by Yve Chavez, Laura Kina ...
    Series series Critical Ethnic Studies and Visual Culture
    Examines how Native artists kept their culture alive by creatively adapting under colonial ruleBetween 1769 and 1823, the Franciscans established twenty-one missions in California, colonizing the ancestral territories of many Native communities between present-day Sonoma and San Diego. In Indigenizing California Mission Art and Architecture, Gabrieleno Tongva scholar Yve Chavez highlights how ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Visualizing Genocide

    Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums

    Edited by Yve Chavez, Nancy Marie Mithlo ...
    Visualizing Genocide examines how creative arts and memory institutions selectively commemorate or often outright ignore stark histories of colonialism. The essays confront outdated narratives and institutional methods by investigating contemporary artistic and scholarly interventions documenting settler colonialisms including land theft, incarceration, intergenerational trauma, and genocide. ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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  • Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

    by Daniel Heath Justice ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today.In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, this book contemplates four key questions at the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

    Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

    Edited by William Cronon ...
    A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Two-Spirits

    Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America

    by Gregory Smithers ...
    Series Book 12 - Queer Ideas/Queer Action
    **Winner of the 2023 Prose Award in Cultural Anthropology and SociologyFinalist for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Randy Shilts Award for Gay NonfictionA sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.**Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • We Stopped Forgetting: Stories from Sami Americans

    by Ellen Marie Jensen ...
    What if you thought you knew about your family's roots and there was more to the story? What if your real ethnicity was kept hidden due to prejudice, immigration and assimilation? Ellen Marie Jensen traverses this territory in "We Stopped Forgetting Stories from Sámi Americans".During the immigration period of 1880-1940 an unknown number of Sámi people (the indigenous people of Northern Norway, ... Read more

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  • Decolonizing Museums

    Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums

    by Amy Lonetree ...
    Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the complexities of these new relationships with an eye toward exploring how museums can grapple with centuries of unresolved trauma as they tell the stories ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Alien Capital

    Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism

    by Iyko Day ...
    In Alien Capital Iyko Day retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its intersection with capitalism and the racialization of Asian immigrants to Canada and the United States. Day explores how the historical alignment of Asian bodies and labor with capital's abstract and negative dimensions became one of settler colonialism's foundational and defining features. This ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Public Art

    Theory, Practice and Populism

    by Cher Krause Knight ...
    This book takes a bold look at public art and its populist appeal, offering a more inclusive guide to America's creative tastes and shared culture. It examines the history of American public art – from FDR's New Deal to Christo's The Gates – and challenges preconceived notions of public art, expanding its definition to include a broader scope of works and concepts.Expands the definition of public ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • Reservation Reelism

    Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film

    by Michelle H. Raheja ...
    In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood’s representation of Indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies and visual culture generally have provided the primary representational field on which Indigenous images have been displayed to non-Native ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • After Canaan

    Essays on Race, Writing, and Region

    by Wayde Compton ...
    "Compton pushes us to look beneath the surface—past those comforting tales of nationhood and racial solidarity—to the more nebulous and ever-shifting truth. This is a brilliant and original work that should be mandatory reading for any student of race and history."—Danzy Senna, author of CaucasiaAfter Canaan, the first nonfiction book by acclaimed African Canadian poet Wayde Compton, repositions ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Place Matters

    Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America

    Edited by Wilfred M. McClay, Ted V. McAllister ...
    Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of place” and community. Appreciating place is essential for building the strong local communities that cultivate civic engagement, public leadership, and many of the other goods that contribute to a flourishing human life.Do we, in losing our places, lose the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD