The white possessive : property, power, and Indigenous sovereignty /
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis ; London :
University of Minnesota Press,
2015
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| Series: | Indigenous Americas.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Awards: | Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), Best Subsequent Book, 2015. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781452944586 145294458X 1452950768 9781452950761 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
