| Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas Contributor(s): Smithers, Gregory D. (Editor), Newman, Brooke N. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0803233639 ISBN-13: 9780803233638 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - History | North American - History | Caribbean & West Indies - General |
| Dewey: 970.004 |
| LCCN: 2013044686 |
| Series: Borderlands and Transcultural Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.28" H x 6.02" W x 9.09" (1.57 lbs) 524 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work of leading scholars, including Bill Anthes, Duane Champagne, Daniel Cobb, Donald Fixico, and Joy Porter, among others, in examining an expansive range of Native peoples and the extent of their influences through reaggregation. These diverse and wide-ranging essays uncover indigenous understandings of self-identification, community, and culture through the speeches, cultural products, intimate relations, and political and legal practices of Native peoples. Native Diasporas explores how indigenous peoples forged a sense of identity and community amid the changes wrought by European colonialism in the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and the mainland Americas from the seventeenth through the twentieth century. Broad in scope and groundbreaking in the topics it explores, this volume presents fresh insights from scholars devoted to understanding Native American identity in meaningful and methodologically innovative ways. Gregory D. Smithers teaches history at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of three books, including Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780s-1890s. Brooke N. Newman is an assistant professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her articles have appeared in Gender and History and Slavery and Abolition. |