Smith Native Americans and the Christian Right

The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8887-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 398 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

Argues that previous accounts of religious and political activism in the Native American community fail to account for the variety of positions held by this community.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Andrea

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xxxvii

Introduction: Why Rearticulation Matters 1

1. Set the Prisoners Free: The Christian Right and the Prison Industrial Complex 9

2. "The One Who Did Not Break His Promises": Native Nationalisms and the Christian Right 74

3. Without Apology": Native American and Evangelical Feminisms 115

4. Unlikely Allies: Rethinking Coalition Politics 200

5. Native Women and Sovereignty: Beyond the Nation-State 255

Conclusion 272

Appendix 1. A Brief Map of Christian Right and Native American Organizing 277

Appendix 2. Interviewees and Dates of Interviews 291

Bibliography 293

Index 351

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Smith is Assistant Professor of American Culture and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, the editor of The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, and a coeditor of Color of Violence: Violence Against Women of Color. She is a cofounder of the national activist organization INCITE! Women of Color against Violence.