Red skin, white masks : rejecting the colonial politics of recognition / Glen Sean Coulthard ; foreword by Taiaiake Alfred.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coulthard, Glen Sean, 1974- author.

Series:

Indigenous Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Canada--Government relations.

Indians of North America.

Ethnic relations.

Canada.

Indians of North America--Canada--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc--Canada.

Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.

Indians, Treatment of--Canada.

Indians, Treatment of.

Canada--Ethnic relations--Political aspects.

Ethnic relations--Political aspects.

Indians of North America--Government relations.

Indians of North America--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xiv, 229 pages ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Rejecting the colonial politics of recognition

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]

Summary:

In a work of critically engaged political theory, Glen Sean Coulthard challenges recognition as a method of organizing difference and identity in liberal politics, questioning the assumption that contemporary difference and past histories of destructive colonialism between the state and Indigenous peoples can be reconciled through a process of acknowledgment. Coulthard examines an alternative politics-one that seeks to revalue, reconstruct, and redeploy Indigenous cultural practices based on self-recognition rather than on seeking appreciation from the very agents of colonialism. Coulthard demonstrates how a "place-based" modification of Karl Marx's theory of "primitive accumulation" throws light on Indigenous-state relations in settler-colonial contexts and how Frantz Fanon's critique of colonial recognition shows that this relationship reproduces itself over time. In addressing the core tenets of Indigenous resistance movements, like Red Power and Idle No More, Coulthard offers fresh insights into the politics of active decolonization. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Subjects of empire

The politics of recognition in colonial contexts

For the land : the Dene nation's struggle for self-determination

Essentialism and the gendered politics of aboriginal self-government

Seeing red : reconciliation and resentment

The plunge into the chasm of the past : Fanon, self-recognition, and decolonization

Conclusion : lessons from Idle No More : the future of indigenous activism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816679645

0816679649

9780816679652

0816679657

OCLC:

875769300