The white possessive : property, power, and Indigenous sovereignty / Aileen Moreton-Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, author.

Series:

Indigenous Americas.

Indigenous Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Ethnic identity.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure.

White people--Race identity--Australia.

White people.

Property--Social aspects--Australia.

Property.

Self-determination, National--Australia.

Self-determination, National.

Race awareness--Australia.

Race awareness.

National characteristics, Australian.

Australia--Race relations.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 239 pages)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London, [England] : University of Minnesota Press, 2015.

Summary:

"The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and culturally constructed as a white possession. Moreton-Robinson reveals how the core values of Australian national identity continue to have their roots in Britishness and colonization, built on the disavowal of Indigenous sovereignty. Whiteness studies literature is central to Moreton-Robinson's reasoning, and she shows how blackness works as a white epistemological tool that bolsters the social production of whiteness--displacing Indigenous sovereignties and rendering them invisible in a civil rights discourse, thereby sidestepping thorny issues of settler colonialism.Throughout this critical examination Moreton-Robinson proposes a bold new agenda for critical Indigenous studies, one that involves deeper analysis of how the prerogatives of white possession function within the role of disciplines. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Contents Acknowledgments

Introduction: White Possession and Indigenous Sovereignty Matters

Part I. Owning Property

1. I Still Call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a Postcolonizing Society

2. The House That Jack Built: Britishness and White Possession

3. Bodies That Matter on the Beach

4. Writing Off Treaties: Possession in the U.S. Critical Whiteness Literature

Part II. Becoming Propertyless

5. Nullifying Native Title: A Possessive Investment in Whiteness

6. The High Court and the Yorta Yorta Decision

7. Leesa's Story: White Possession in the Workplace

8. The Legacy of Cook's Choice

Part III. Being Property

9. Toward a New Research Agenda: Foucault, Whiteness, and Sovereignty

10. Writing Off Sovereignty: The Discourse of Security and Patriarchal White Sovereignty

11. Imagining the Good Indigenous Citizen: Race War and the Pathology of White Sovereignty

12. Virtuous Racial States: White Sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Afterword

Notes

Publication History

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), Best Subsequent Book, 2015

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781452950761

1452950768

9780816692149

0816692149

OCLC:

909028271

Publisher Number:

heb40259 hdl