Fantasies Of The Master Race

Author : Ward Churchill
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0872863484

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Fantasies of the Master Race by Ward Churchill Pdf

Chosen an "Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in the United States" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. In this volume of incisive essays, Ward Churchill looks at representations of American Indians in literature and film, delineating a history of cultural propaganda that has served to support the continued colonization of Native America. During each phase of the genocide of American Indians, the media has played a critical role in creating easily digestible stereotypes of Indians for popular consumption. Literature about Indians was first written and published in order to provoke and sanctify warfare against them. Later, the focus changed to enlisting public support for "civilizing the savages," stripping them of their culture and assimilating them into the dominant society. Now, in the final stages of cultural genocide, it is the appropriation and stereotyping of Native culture that establishes control over knowledge and truth. The primary means by which this is accomplished is through the powerful publishing and film industries. Whether they are the tragically doomed "noble savages" walking into the sunset of Dances With Wolves or Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan, the exotic mythical Indians constitute no threat to the established order. Literature and art crafted by the dominant culture are an insidious political force, disinforming people who might otherwise develop a clearer understanding of indigenous struggles for justice and freedom. This book is offered to counter that deception, and to move people to take action on issues confronting American Indians today.

Author : Ward Churchill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1894037057

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Author : Ward Churchill
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 0896085538

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From a Native Son by Ward Churchill Pdf

Ward Churchill has emerged over the past decade as one of the strongest and most influential voices of native resistance in North America. From a Native Son collects his most important and unflinching essays, which explore the themes of

Author : Troy Lee Strother
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0966190505

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Master Race by Troy Lee Strother Pdf

Author : Ward Churchill
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0872863239

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A Little Matter of Genocide by Ward Churchill Pdf

Ward Churchill has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues in North America. Here, he explores the history of holocaust and denial in this hemisphere, beginning with the arrival of Columbus and continuing on into the present. He frames the matter by examining both "revisionist" denial of the nazi-perpatrated Holocaust and the opposing claim of its exclusive "uniqueness," using the full scope of what happened in Europe as a backdrop against which to demonstrate that genocide is precisely what has been-and still is-carried out against the American Indians. Churchill lays bare the means by which many of these realities have remained hidden, how public understanding of this most monstrous of crimes has been subverted not only by its perpetrators and their beneficiaries but by the institutions and individuals who perceive advantages in the confusion. In particular, he outlines the reasons underlying the United States's 40-year refusal to ratify the Genocide Convention, as well as the implications of the attempt to exempt itself from compliance when it finally offered its "endorsement." In conclusion, Churchill proposes a more adequate and coherent definition of the crime as a basis for identifying, punishing, and preventing genocidal practices, wherever and whenever they occur. Ward Churchill (enrolled Keetoowah Cherokee) is Professor of American Indian Studies with the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder. A member of the American Indian Movement since 1972, he has been a leader of the Colorado chapter for the past fifteen years. Among his previous books have been Fantasies of a Master Race, Struggle for the Land, Since Predator Came, and From a Native Son.

Author : Stephanie Greco Larson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0847694534

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Media & Minorities by Stephanie Greco Larson Pdf

Media & Minorities looks at the media's racial tendencies with an eye to identifying the "system supportive" messages conveyed and offering challenges to them. The book covers all major media--including television, film, newspapers, radio, magazines, and the Internet--and systematically analyzes their representation of the four largest minority groups in the U.S.: African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. Entertainment media are compared and contrasted with news media, and special attention is devoted to coverage of social movements for racial justice and politicians of color.

Author : Beth Fowkes Tobin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822323389

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Picturing Imperial Power by Beth Fowkes Tobin Pdf

An interdisciplinary study of visual representations of British colonial power in the eighteenth century.

Author : Peter C. Rollins,John E. O'Connor
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813137957

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Hollywood's Indian by Peter C. Rollins,John E. O'Connor Pdf

Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry's output, Hollywood's Indian provides insightful characterizations of the depiction of the Native Americans in film. This updated edition includes a new chapter on Smoke Signals, the groundbreaking independent film written by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre. Taken as a whole the essays explore the many ways in which these portrayals have made an impact on our collective cultural life.

Author : Norman Spinrad
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575117228

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The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad Pdf

Norman Spinrad's 1972 alternate history, gives us both a metafictional what-if novel and a cutting satire of one of the 20th century's most evil regimes . . . In 1919, a young Austrian artist by the name of Adolf Hitler immigrated to the United States to become an illustrator for the pulp magazines and, eventually, a Hugo Award-winning SF author. This volume contains his greatest work, Lord of the Swastika: an epic post-apocalyptic tale of genetic 'trueman' Feric Jagger and his quest to purify the bloodline of humanity by ruthlessly slaughtering races of the genetically impure - a quest Norman Spinrad expertly skewers through ironic imagery and over-the-top rhetoric. Spinrad hoped to expose some unpalatable truths about much of SF and Fantasy literature and its uncomfortable relationship with fascist ideologies - an aim that was not always apparent to neo-fascist readers. In order to make his aims clear to the hard-of-understanding, Spinrad added an imaginary critical analysis by a fictional literary scholar, Homer Whipple, of New York University.

Author : Arlene Hirschfelder,Paulette F. Molin,Yvonne Wakim
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810836129

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American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children by Arlene Hirschfelder,Paulette F. Molin,Yvonne Wakim Pdf

The world of contemporary American infants and young children is saturated with inappropriate images of American Indians. American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children reveals and discusses these images and cultural stereotypes through writings like Kathy Kerner's previously unpublished essay on Thanksgiving and an essay by Dr. Cornell Pewewardy on Disney's Pocahontas film. This edition incorporates new writings and recent developments, such as a chronology documenting changes associated with the mascot issue, along with information on state legislation. Other new material incorporates powerful commentary by Native American veterans, who speak to the issue of stereotyping against their people in the military. Also includes a new expanded annotated bibliography.

Author : Duane Champagne
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780585201269

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Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues by Duane Champagne Pdf

Duane Champagne has assembled a volume of top scholarship reflecting the complexity and diversity of Native American cultural life. Introductions to each topical section provide background and integrated analyses of the issues at hand. The informative and critical studies that follow offer experiences and perspectives from a variety of Native settings. Topics include identity, gender, the powwow, mass media, health and environmental issues. This book and its companion volume, Contemporary Native American Political Issues, edited by Troy R. Johnson, are ideal teaching tools for instructors in Native American studies, ethnic studies, and anthropology, and important resources for anyone working in or with Native communities.

Author : Charles W. Mills
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780801471353

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The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills Pdf

The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence "whites" and "non-whites," full persons and sub-persons, how it influences white moral theory and moral psychology; and how this system is imposed on non-whites through ideological conditioning and violence. The Racial Contract argues that the society we live in is a continuing white supremacist state. Holding up a mirror to mainstream philosophy, this provocative book explains the evolving outline of the racial contract from the time of the New World conquest and subsequent colonialism to the written slavery contract, to the "separate but equal" system of segregation in the twentieth-century United States. According to Mills, the contract has provided the theoretical architecture justifying an entire history of European atrocity against non-whites, from David Hume's and Immanuel Kant's claims that blacks had inferior cognitive power, to the Holocaust, to the kind of imperialism in Asia that was demonstrated by the Vietnam War. Mills suggests that the ghettoization of philosophical work on race is no accident. This work challenges the assumption that mainstream theory is itself raceless. Just as feminist theory has revealed orthodox political philosophy's invisible white male bias, Mills's explication of the racial contract exposes its racial underpinnings.

Author : Charles Mills
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780742580886

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From Class to Race by Charles Mills Pdf

In From Class to Race, Charles Mills maps the theoretical route that brought him to the innovative conceptual framework outlined in his academic bestseller The Racial Contract (1997). Mills argues for a new critical theory that develops the insights of the black radical political tradition. While challenging conventional interpretations of key Marxist concepts and claims, the author contends that Marxism has been 'white' insofar as it has failed to recognize the centrality of race and white supremacy to the making of the modern world. By appealing to both mainstream liberal values and the structuralism traditionally associated with the left, Mills asserts that critical race theory can radicalize the mainstream Enlightenment and develop a new kind of contractarianism that deals frontally with race and other forms of social oppression rather than evading them.

Author : Marina Levina,Diem-My T. Bui
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441193261

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Monster Culture in the 21st Century by Marina Levina,Diem-My T. Bui Pdf

In the past decade, our rapidly changing world faced terrorism, global epidemics, economic and social strife, new communication technologies, immigration, and climate change to name a few. These fears and tensions reflect an evermore-interconnected global environment where increased mobility of people, technologies, and disease have produced great social, political, and economical uncertainty. The essays in this collection examine how monstrosity has been used to manage these rising fears and tensions. Analyzing popular films and televisions shows, such as True Blood, Twilight, Paranormal Activity, District 9, Battlestar Galactica, and Avatar, it argues that monstrous narratives of the past decade have become omnipresent specifically because they represent collective social anxieties over resisting and embracing change in the 21st century. The first comprehensive text that uses monstrosity not just as a metaphor for change, but rather a necessary condition through which change is lived and experienced in the 21st century, this approach introduces a different perspective toward the study of monstrosity in culture.

Author : Tim Cresswell,Deborah Dixon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0742508854

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Engaging Film by Tim Cresswell,Deborah Dixon Pdf

Engaging Film is a creative, interdisciplinary volume that explores the engagements among film, space, and identity and features a section on the use of films in the classroom as a critical pedagogical tool. Focusing on anti-essentialist themes in films and film production, this book examines how social and spatial identities are produced (or dissolved) in films and how mobility is used to create different experiences of time and space. From popular movies such as "Pulp Fiction," "Bulworth," "Terminator 2," and "The Crying Game" to home movies and avant-garde films, the analyses and teaching methods in this collection will engage students and researchers in film and media studies, cultural geography, social theory, and cultural studies.