The transit of empire : indigenous critiques of colonialism /

The transit of empire : indigenous critiques of colonialism /

In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that s...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Byrd, Jodi A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2011]
Series:First peoples (2010)
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Government relations > History.
Indians of North America > Colonization > United States.
Imperialism > Social aspects > United States.
Racism > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Full fathom five
  • Introduction: Indigenous critical theory and the diminishing returns of civilization
  • 1. Is and sas: poststructural indians without ancestry
  • 2. "This Island's Mine": the parallax logics of Caliban's Cacophony
  • 3. The masks of conquest: Wilson Harris's Jonestown and the thresholds of frievability
  • 4. "Been to the Nation, Lord, but I Couldn't Stay There": Cherokee Freedmen, internal colonialism, and the racialization of citizenship
  • 5. Satisfied with stones: native Hawaiian government reorganization and the discourses of resistance
  • 6. Killing states: removals, other Americans, and the "Pale Promise of Democracy"
  • Conclusion: Zombie imperialism.