Native American and Indigenous Studies

The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage An Enlightenment Problematic Tony C. Brown 2012 Fall

How the exotic constitutes Enlightenment aesthetic theory

Archaeology of Minnesota The Prehistory of the Upper Mississippi River Region Guy Gibbon 2012 Fall

A precontact history of Minnesota that reveals the relevance of archaeology to our understanding of the world today

The Red Land to the South American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico James H. Cox 2012 Fall

Recovers an entire era as a major period in American Indian writing

Trans-Indigenous Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies Chadwick Allen 2012 Fall

Uncovering the wealth of Indigenous self-representation through juxtaposition of genres, cultures, histories, and geographies

Creole Indigeneity Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean Shona N. Jackson 2012 Fall

How Creoles refashioned the techniques of settler power and used the principle of labor to become the Caribbean’s new “natives”

The Erotics of Sovereignty Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination Mark Rifkin 2012 Spring

How queer Native writers use the erotics of lived experience to challenge both federal and tribal notions of “Indianness”

Once Were Pacific Māori Connections to Oceania Alice Te Punga Somerville 2012 Spring

Explores the relationship between indigeneity and migration among Māori and Pacific peoples

On the Run in Siberia Rane Willerslev 2012 Spring

A hair-raising tale of idealism, political corruption, shamanism, and survival in the Siberian wilderness

A Chosen People, a Promised Land Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i Hokulani K. Aikau 2012 Spring

How Native Hawaiians’ experience of Mormonism intersects with their cultural and ethnic identities and traditions

Represent and Destroy Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism Jodi Melamed 2011 Fall

A stinging critique of the link between global capitalism and U.S. multiculturalisms

The Tourist State Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and Race in New Zealand Margaret Werry 2011 Fall

Examining the role of performance in state-making

Spaces between Us Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization Scott Morgensen 2011 Fall

Explores the intimate relationship of non-Native and Native sexual politics in the United States

The Transit of Empire Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism Jodi A. Byrd 2011 Fall

Examines how “Indianness” has propagated U.S. conceptions of empire

The Way of Kinship An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature Alexander Vaschenko and Claude Clayton Smith, Editors 2010 Fall

Prose, poetry, and drama from Siberia—the first anthology of its kind in English

Claiming Others Transracial Adoption and National Belonging Mark C. Jerng 2010 Fall

How transracial adoption and its history changes the way we see family, nation, and race

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