Title Individuality incorporated : Indians and the multicultural modern / Joel Pfister

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 340 pages) : illustrations Series New Americanists New Americanists. e-Duke books scholarly collection. Contents Introduction: Lessons Indians Can Teach -- American Studies about the Rule of Individuality -- PART ONE. Categorizing and Institutionalizing Indians and Individuals. 1 Carlisle as Individualizing Factory: Making Indians, Individuals, Workers. Digesting "Indians": Assimilation as Individualizing. Possessive and Domestic Individualizing: Treason to the Tribe. Complexity, Critical Thinking, and Performance at Carlisle. Pratt's Carlisle (1879-1904): Class, Race, Warfare. Carlisle, Consumer Culture, and Loaded Cultural Relativism (1904-1918). Education for What? 2 The School of Savagery: "Indian" Formations of Subjectivity and Carlisle. Literary Indianizing: Discourses of Native Cultural Subjectivity. Parodying Parroting: Faking Individual and Indian -- PART TWO. Multicultural Modernity Incorporated. 3 Modernist Multiculturalism: Lawrence, Luhan, and the White Therapeutic Indianizing of "Lost" White Individuality. Toward Therapeutic Imperialism: Garland and the Modernizing of Digestion Management. White Therapeutic Primitivism and the Indian Business: Environmental, Soulful, and Literary "Indians." Giving Them the Business: "Indians" in the Therapeutic and Modernist Marketplace. Rhythmic Ethnomodernism: Luhan, Lawrence, Austin, and the Fantasy of Individualized Liberation in Tribal Scenes. "Indians" in the Bloodstream: The Politics of Lawrence's Psychological Critique of American Individualizing. 4 Indians Inc. Collier's New Deal Diversity Management. Collier's Saviourism: Radical Polemicist against Individualizing. Anti-Imperial Romanticism: Collier as Social Theorist of "Indians." Imperial Self-Government: Reorganizing "Indians." Detours from the Therapeutic: La Farge's and McNickle's Fictions. Taos, Collier, and the Multicultural Containment of Critique. Afterword: Diversity Incorporated and World Americanization -- Appendix 1. Notes on Natives and Socialism -- Appendix 2. A Proposal to Reopen Carlisle Summary Joel Pfister examines how the US government has attempted over time to dictate to Native Americans how they should view their own individuality. He illustrates how concepts of individuality can be very different & how the federal blueprint for an 'Indian' falls far short of any objective reality Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation. Indians of North America -- History -- Sources White people -- Relations with Indians. Individualism -- United States Indians in literature. Indians in popular culture. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies. Indians in literature Indians in popular culture Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation Individualism Politics and government Race relations White people -- Relations with Indians Individualismus SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410 Subject United States Nordamerika Indianer. Genre/Form History Sources Form Electronic book LC no. 2003016059 ISBN 9780822385660 082238566X 1282921185 9781282921184 9786612921186 6612921188

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