Archive for October, 2010
From ABC News: Aboriginal protesters have forced the temporarily closure of an exhibition of paintings at the Wollongong City Gallery. The protesters say the images portray the denigration of Aboriginal people and are highly offensive. The exhibition called No Country For Dreaming is by nine-times Archibald finalist Paul Ryan. Aaron Broad Henry helped bring the exhibition to […]
Filed under: art, Australia, Political developments | Closed
Alexandra Harmon, Rich Indians: Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History (UNC Press, 2010). Long before lucrative tribal casinos sparked controversy, Native Americans amassed other wealth that provoked intense debate about the desirability, morality, and compatibility of Indian and non-Indian economic practices. Skillfully blending social, cultural, and economic history, Alexandra Harmon examines […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
I am the corn, the beans, the squash, the sweet potatoes, and tomatoes on your dinner table. I am the gratitude you express every fourth Thursday in November. […] I am the Indian in your living room. I am the Great Law of Peace. I am the plan for the U.S. Constitution given you by […]
Filed under: literature, United States, Website | Closed
Julie Bonello, ‘The Development of Early Settler Identity in Southern Rhodesia: 1890-1914′, International Journal of African Historical Studies 43, 2 (2010). introductory paragraph: White settlement in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, is little more than a century old, yet its development is a significant and exceptional episode in the complex history of colonial Africa. Like many […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Podcast/interview: Jean M. O’Brien on the Historical Erasure of Indians in New England, appearing on Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond.
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
Thursday 21 October 2010 7:30-9pm Institute of Postcolonial Studies, North Melbourne James Belich, Kate Darian-Smith, Lorenzo Veracini The southern question is figured as a struggle by colonies to liberate themselves from metropolitan centres in order to realise their own destinies at the other end of the world. This includes taking up the challenge of co-existence […]
Filed under: public lecture | Closed
Jens-Uwe Guettel, ‘From the Frontier to German South-West Africa: German Colonialism, Indians and American Westward Expansion’, Modern Intellectual History 7, 3 (2010) This article argues that positive perceptions of American westward expansion played a major (and so far overlooked) role both for the domestic German debate about the necessity of overseas expansion and for concrete […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Frances Peters-Little, Ann Curthoys and John Docker, eds., Passionate Histories: Myth, memory and Indigenous Australia (ANU E-Press, Aboriginal History Monograph 21, 2010). This book examines the emotional engagements of both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous people with Indigenous history. The contributors are a mix of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous scholars, who in different ways examine how the past […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights | Closed
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