Inventing the Savage The Social Construction of Native American Criminality

Name: Inventing the Savage The Social Construction of Native American Criminality
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ISBN: 9780292770843

ISBN-10: 0292770847

ISBN-13: 9780292770843

Edition: 1998

Authors: Luana Ross

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Luana Ross writes, "Native Americans disappear into Euro-American institutions of confinement at alarming rates. People from my reservation appeared to simply vanish and magically return. [As a child] I did not realize what a 'real' prison was and did not give it any thought. I imagined this as normal; that all families had relatives who went away and then returned." In this pathfinding study, Ross draws upon the life histories of imprisoned Native American women to demonstrate how race/ethnicity, gender, and class contribute to the criminalizing of various behaviors and subsequent incarceration rates. Drawing on the Native women' own words, she reveals the violence in their lives prior to…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 4/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 326
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Colonization and the Social Construction of Deviance


Worlds Collide: New World, New Indians


Racializing Montana: The Creation of "Bad Indians" Continues



Creating Dangerous Women: Narratives of Imprisoned Native American and White Women


Prisoner Profile: Past and Present


Lives Dictated by Violence


Experiences of Women in Prison: "They Keep Me at a Level Where They Can Control Me"


Rehabilitation or Control: "What Are They Trying to Do? Destroy Me?"


Prison Subculture: "It's All a Game and It Doesn't Make Sense to Me"


Motherhood Imprisoned: Images and Concerns of Imprisoned Mothers


Double Punishment: Weak Institutional Support for Imprisoned Mothers


Rehabilitation and Healing of Imprisoned Mothers


Narrative of a Native Woman on the Outside: Gloria Wells Norlin (Ka min di tat)


Epilogue


Appendix: Violations and Descriptions


Notes


Bibliography


Index