Archive for the ‘United States’ Category
Nearly 2 million high school students worldwide are taking Advanced Placement tests this May, hoping to impress college admissions counselors with high scores and, perhaps, earn a few college credits. But one test question citing the late Palestinian-American scholar and activist Edward Said on the theme of exile is prompting protests from some Jewish students. […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, media, Political developments, Quote, United States | Closed
Andrew Dawson and Matthew Lange, ‘Dividing and Ruling the World? A Statistical Test of the Effects of Colonialism on Postcolonial Civil Violence’, Social Forces 88, 2, 2009 abstract To test claims that postcolonial civil violence is a common legacy of colonialism, we create a dataset on the colonial heritage of 160 countries and explore whether […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Australia, Éire, Canada, Empire, Genocide, Hawaii, Israel/Palestine, Latin America, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Georgia Shiells, ‘Immigration History and Whiteness Studies: American and Australian Approaches Compared’, History Compass 8, 8 (2010) Abstract The emergence of whiteness studies as a discrete field of academic enquiry has had important implications across a range of fields, including history. In particular, insights drawn from whiteness studies can be fruitfully applied to the study […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
John Rennie Short, Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World (London: Reaktion Books, 2009) In this major re-interpretation of American history, John Rennie Short argues that until now, both writing about and popular understanding of, the exploration and mapping of the New World has largely ignored the pivotal role played by […]
Filed under: Political developments, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
inventing the indian
Indian identity, to borrow from Berkhofer, is a counterfeit construction embellished by citizens who reside outside the Native landscape. Indian attempts to define their own authenticity are dismissed by scientists as irrelevant and by jurists as insignificant. For most lay publics, therefore, their exposure to Indian identity takes the form of what Baudrilliard called a […]
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Alexis Celeste Bunten, ‘More like Ourselves: Indigenous Capitalism through Tourism’, The American Indian Quarterly 34, 3 2010, pp. 285-311. In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article. In the most remote and beautiful parts of the world where much of the world’s rural Indigenous populations still live, sustainable tourism is presented […]
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Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton (eds.), Terror and the Postcolonial: A Concise Companion (Wiley-Blackwell 2009) Table of Contents: Introduction: Terror and the Postcolonial (Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton, University of Oxford and University of Southampton). Part I: Theories of Colonial and Postcolonial Terror: 1. The Colony: Its Guilty Secret and Its Accursed Share (Achille Mbembe, […]
Filed under: Africa, Asia, Empire, Israel/Palestine, Political developments, postcolonialism, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
nancy hagedorn on the reconceptualization of european-native relations in colonial northeast america
Nancy Hagedorn, ‘Atlantic History and the Reconceptualization of European-Native Relations in the Colonial Northeast’, H-Net Review, 2010. Evan Haefeli, Kevin Sweeney. Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield. Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History, and the Contemporary Series. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. Illustrations, maps. xv + 376 pp. […]
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Peter Limbrick, Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). In Making Settler Cinemas, Peter Limbrick argues that the United States, Australia, and New Zealand share histories of colonial encounters that have shaped their cinemas in distinctive ways. Going beyond readings of narrative and representation, […]
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Susan Hardman Moore, Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home (Yale University Press, 2010). This book uncovers what might seem to be a dark side of the American dream: the New World from the viewpoint of those who decided not to stay. At the core of the volume are the life histories of […]
Filed under: Empire, Scholarship and insights, United States | Closed
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