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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moreton-Robinson, Aileen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Colección:Indigenous Americas.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: White Possession and Indigenous Sovereignty Matters
  • Part I. Owning Property
  • 1. I Still Call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a Postcolonizing Society
  • 2. The House That Jack Built: Britishness and White Possession
  • 3. Bodies That Matter on the Beach
  • 4. Writing Off Treaties: Possession in the U.S. Critical Whiteness Literature
  • Part II. Becoming Propertyless
  • 5. Nullifying Native Title: A Possessive Investment in Whiteness
  • 6. The High Court and the Yorta Yorta Decision
  • 7. Leesa's Story: White Possession in the Workplace
  • 8. The Legacy of Cook's Choice
  • Part III. Being Property
  • 9. Toward a New Research Agenda: Foucault, Whiteness, and Sovereignty
  • 10. Writing Off Sovereignty: The Discourse of Security and Patriarchal White Sovereignty
  • 11. Imagining the Good Indigenous Citizen: Race War and the Pathology of White Sovereignty
  • 12. Virtuous Racial States: White Sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Publication History
  • Index.