The White Possessive : Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty /

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"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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Main Author: Moreton-Robinson, Aileen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
White people > Race identity.
Self-determination, National.
Race relations.
Race awareness.
Property > Social aspects.
National characteristics, Australian.
Aboriginal Australians > Land tenure.
Aboriginal Australians > Ethnic identity.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Australiens.
Conscience de race > Australie.
Droit des peuples à disposer d'eux-mêmes > Australie.
Australiens (Aborigenes) > Terres.
Australiens (Aborigenes) > Identite ethnique.
Race awareness > Australia.
Self-determination, National > Australia.
Property > Social aspects > Australia.
White people > Race identity > Australia.
Australia.
Australie > Relations raciales.
Australia > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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