Title Settler memory : the disavowal of indigeneity and the politics of race in the United States / Kevin Bruyneel

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 227 pages) : illustrations Series Critical indigeneities Critical indigeneities. Contents Introduction: Settler Memory -- The Settler Memory of Bacon's Rebellion -- Reconstructing Political Memory: The Reconstruction Era and the Faint Trace of Settler Colonialism -- James Baldwin and Cowboys and Indians -- The Free Pass: The Racial Politics of Indian Team Names and Mascots -- Mocking Disavowal and Cruel Celebration: Trump's White Settler Nationalism -- Conclusion: Refusing Settler Memory Summary Faint traces of Indigenous people and their histories abound in American media, memory, and myths. Indigeneity often remains absent or invisible, however, especially in contemporary political and intellectual discourse about white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and racism in general. In this ambitious new book, Kevin Bruyneel confronts the chronic displacement of Indigeneity in the politics and discourse around race in American political theory and culture, arguing that the ongoing influence of settler-colonialism has undermined efforts to understand Indigenous politics while also hindering conversation around race itself. By reexamining major episodes, texts, writers, and memories of the political past from the seventeenth century to the present, Bruyneel reveals the power of settler memory at work in the persistent disavowal of Indigeneity. He also shows how Indigenous and Black intellectuals have understood ties between racism and white settler memory, even as the settler dimensions of whiteness are frequently erased in our discourse about race, whether in conflicts over Indian mascotry or the white nationalist underpinnings of Trumpism. Envisioning a new political future, Bruyneel challenges readers to refuse settler memory and consider a third reconstruction that can meaningfully link antiracism and anticolonialism.-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject White people -- United States -- Relations with Indians Indians of North America -- Social conditions. Racism -- United States Imperialism. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies. Imperialism Indians of North America -- Social conditions Race relations Racism White people -- Relations with Indians SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469665252 1469665255 9798890857415

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