Smith Conquest

Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7481-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

In this revolutionary text, Native American scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the disturbing connections between white settler colonialism, genocide, and violence against Native American women and children.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Foreword / Winona LaDuke ix

Introduction 1

1. Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide 7

2. Boarding School Abuses and the Case for Reparations 35

3. Rape of the Land 55

4. "Better Dead than Pregnant": The Colonization of Native Womens' Reproductive Health 79

5. "Natural Laboratories": Medical Experimentation in Native Communities 109

6. Spiritual Appropriations as Sexual Violence 119

7. Anticolonial Responses to Gender Violence 137

8. U.S. Empire and the War Against Native Sovereignty 177

Endnotes 193

Resource Guide 223

Index 231

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Smith is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances and coeditor of Theorizing Native Studies, both also published by Duke University Press.