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Author Morgensen, Scott Lauria, author

Title Spaces between us : queer settler colonialism and Indigenous decolonization / Scott Lauria Morgensen
Published Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages) : illustrations
Series First peoples : new directions in Indigenous studies
First peoples (2010)
Contents The biopolitics of settler sexuality and queer modernities -- Conversations on Berdache : anthropology, counterculturism, two-spirit organizing -- Authentic culture and sexual rights : contesting citizenship in the settler state -- Ancient roots through settled land : imagining Indigeneity and place among Radical Faeries -- Global desires and transnational solidarity : negotiating Indigeneity among the worlds of queer politics -- "Together we are stronger" : decolonizing gender and sexuality in transnational native AIDS organizing
Summary We are all caught up in one another, Scott Lauria Morgensen asserts, we who live in settler societies, and our interrelationships inform all that these societies touch. Native people live in relation to all non-Natives amid the ongoing power relations of settler colonialism, despite never losing inherent claims to sovereignty as Indigenous peoples. Explaining how relational distinctions of “Native” and “settler” define the status of being “queer,” Spaces between Us argues that modern queer subjects emerged among Natives and non-Natives by engaging the meaningful difference Indigeneity makes within a settler society. Morgensen’s analysis exposes white settler colonialism as a primary condition for the development of modern queer politics in the United States. Bringing together historical and ethnographic cases, he shows how U.S. queer projects became non-Native and normatively white by comparatively examining the historical activism and critical theory of Native queer and Two-Spirit people. Presenting a “biopolitics of settler colonialism”—in which the imagined disappearance of Indigeneity and sustained subjugation of all racialized peoples ensures a progressive future for white settlers—Spaces between Us newly demonstrates the interdependence of nation, race, gender, and sexuality and offers opportunities for resistance in the United States provider's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-275) and index
Notes English
online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed October 13, 2020)
Subject Indian gay people -- History
Indian gay people -- Colonization
Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
Colonists -- Sexual behavior -- United States
Two-spirit people -- United States -- History
Radical Faeries (New Age movement)
Decolonization -- United States -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Decolonization
Frontier and pioneer life
Indian gays
Radical Faeries (New Age movement)
Two-spirit people
Homosexuella -- historia -- Förenta statenra.
Indianer -- kolonisering -- historia -- Förenta staterna.
Nybyggarliv -- historia -- Förenta staterna.
Avkolonisering -- historia -- Förenta staterna.
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011017145
ISBN 9780816678365
0816678367
9781452946306
1452946302
Other Titles Queer settler colonialism and Indigenous decolonization