Distorted Descent

White Claims to Indigenous Identity
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-88755-846-7
Verlag: University of Manitoba Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Distorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined 'Indigenous' identity. This study is not about individuals who have been dispossessed by colonial policies, or the multi-generational efforts to reconnect that occur in response. Rather, it is about white, French-descendant people discovering an Indigenous ancestor born 300 to 375 years ago through genealogy and using that ancestor as the sole basis for an eventual shift into an 'Indigenous' identity today.

After setting out the most common genealogical practices that facilitate race shifting, Leroux examines two of the most prominent self-identified 'Indigenous' organizations currently operating in Quebec. Both organizations have their origins in committed opposition to Indigenous land and territorial negotiations, and both encourage the use of suspect genealogical practices.

Distorted Descent brings to light to how these claims to an 'Indigenous' identity are then used politically to oppose actual, living Indigenous peoples, exposing along the way the shifting politics of whiteness, white settler colonialism, and white supremacy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leroux, Darryl

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Self-Indigigenization in the Twenty-First Century
- Chapter 1 Lineal Descent in an Age of Reconciliation
- Chapter 2 Aspirational Descent: Creating an Indigenous Woman Ancestor
- Chapter 3 Lateral Descent: Reconstructing Indigeneity in the Past
- Chapter 4 After Powley: Anti- Indigenous Activism and Becoming Métis in Two Regions of Quebec
- Chapter 5 The Largest Self-Identified Métis Organization in Canada: The Métis Nation of the Rising Sun
- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Darryl Leroux is associate professor in the Department of Social Justice and Community Studies at Saint Mary’s University in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia). He has been working on the dynamics of racism and colonialism among fellow French descendants for nearly two decades.