Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians - Hardcover

Jaimes, M. Annette

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0962883875 ISBN 13: 9780962883873

Publisher: Common Courage Pr, 1992

Synopsis

essays on popular culture and imperialism

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From Library Journal

This eye-opening collection of essays deals with the distortions of Native American ethnography within mainstream literature and movies. Churchill provides examples of how Euroamericans have played fast and loose with dates, and more currently with the spiritual nature of Native Americans. He theorizes that the attempt to understand the culture of Native Americans has led to the dispossession of that culture. Churchill provides no answers on how to redeem or fix the current situation, but his ideas will force readers to acknowledge the stereotyping and demise of various cultures. His book is essential to understanding the effects of a system of internal colonization, and the consumption of the rights and resources of indigenous peoples. Valuable.
- L. Kriz, Sioux City P.L., Ia.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Common Courage Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0962883875
• ISBN 13: 9780962883873
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304