Publication

2001-07-25 - University of Illinois Press

Language

English

Word Count

60,000 words, Guess

Page Count

240 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780252026621
  • Open LibraryOL9501507M

Classifications

  • LCCE93 .C76 2001
  • LCCE93.C76 2001

Description

"In this work, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn confronts the politics and policies of genocide that continue to destroy the land, livelihood, and culture of Native Americans. Anti-Indianism in Modern America tells the other side of stories of historical massacres and modern-day hate crimes, events that are dismissed or glossed over by historians, journalists, and courts alike. Cook-Lynn exposes the colonialism that works both overtly and covertly to silence and diminish Native Americans, supported by a rhetoric of reconciliation, assimilation, and multiculturalism. Comparing anti-Indianism to anti-Semitism, she sets the American history of broken treaties, stolen lands, mass murder, cultural dispossession, and Indian hating in an international context of ethnic cleansing, "ecocide" (environmental destruction), and colonial oppression."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

Anti-Indianism is probably the foremost challenge to U.S. history and art, two major disciplines that often claim to be ethically neutral.

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Other Editions

  • Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's EarthHardcoverUniversity of Illinois Press2001-07-25

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