Native Acts Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity

Name: Native Acts Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity
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ISBN: 9780822348511

ISBN-10: 0822348519

ISBN-13: 9780822348511

Edition: 2011

Authors: Joanne Barker

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In the United States, Native peoples must be able to demonstrably look and act like the Natives of U.S. national narrations in order to secure their legal rights and standing as Natives. How Native peoples choose to navigate these demands and the implications of their choices for Native social formations are the focus of this powerful critique. Joanne Barker contends that the concepts and assumptions of cultural authenticity within Native communities potentially reproduce the very social inequalities and injustices of racism, ethnocentrism, sexism, homophobia, and fundamentalism that define U.S. nationalism and, by extension, Native oppression. She argues that until the hold of these…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 9/9/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introductions



Recognition



Of the "Indian Tribe"



In Cherokee v. Delaware



Membership



Of the "Indian Member"



In Martinez v. Santa Clara (and Vice Versa)



In Disenrollment



Tradition



Of Marriage and Sexuality



Origins


Notes


Bibliography


Index