The magic children : racial identity at the end of the age of race / Roger Echo-Hawk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Echo-Hawk, Roger C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Echo-Hawk, Roger C--Childhood and youth.

Echo-Hawk, Roger C.

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.

Indians of North America.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, Inc., c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One day at the end of the twentieth century, Roger Echo-Hawk decided to give up being an Indian. After becoming an American Indian historian, he started to question our widespread reliance on a concept of race that the academy had long-since discredited, and embarked on a personal and professional journey to giving up race himself. This passionate book offers a powerful meditation on racialism and a manifesto for creating a world without it. Echo-Hawk examines personal identity, social movements, and policy-NAGPRA, Indian law, Red Pride, indigenous archaeology-showing how they rely on rac

Contents:

Contents; Preface: What Happens Next; 1. In the Fifteenth Dream; 2. Nothing Is Real; 3. The Haunted Statue; 4. The Bear Enchantments; 5. Slowly Unraveling; 6. The Enchanted Coop; 7. In the Ninth Dream; 8. In the Land of Rangers and Bears and Hispanics; 9. In the Tenth Dream; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-41799-5

1-315-41800-2

1-315-41801-0

1-59874-576-X

9781315418018

OCLC:

712993197