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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.
- Alfred, Taiaiake, author of introduction, etc.
- Series:
- Indigenous Americas.
- Indigenous Americas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Canada--Government relations.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Canada--Politics and government.
- Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc--Canada.
- Indians, Treatment of--Canada.
- Indians, Treatment of.
- Canada--Ethnic relations--Political aspects.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization between the nation-state and Indigenous nations in North America. The term "recognition" shapes debates over Indigenous cultural distinctiveness, Indigenous rights to land and self-government, and Indigenous peoples' right to benefit from the development of their lands and resources. 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.
- 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.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-7964-9
- 1-4529-4840-2
- 1-4529-4242-0
- OCLC:
- 891449749
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