The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) - Softcover

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Byrd, Jodi A.

 
9780816676415: The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816676410 ISBN 13: 9780816676415
Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that serves as precedent within U.S. imperial history. Byrd argues that contemporary U.S. empire expands itself through a transferable "Indianness" that facilitates acquisitions of lands, territories, and resources. Examining an array of literary texts, historical moments, and pending legislations-from the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma's vote in 2007 to expel Cherokee Freedmen to the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization bill-Byrd demonstrates that inclusion into the multicultural cosmopole does not end colonialism as it is purported to do. Rather, that inclusion is the very site of the colonization that feeds U.S. empire. Byrd contends that the colonization of American Indian and indigenous nations is the necessary ground from which to reimagine a future where the losses of indigenous peoples are not only visible and, in turn, grieveable, but where indigenous peoples have agency to transform life on their own lands and on their own terms.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jodi A. Byrd is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma and assistant professor of American Indian studies and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

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Verlag
University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0816676410
ISBN 13 
9780816676415
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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