...Andrea Smith Queer studies highlights the importance of developing analyses that go beyond identity and representational politics. For Native studies in particular, queer theory points to the possibility of going beyond representing the voices of Native peoples, a project that can quickly become co...

...Qwo-Li Driskill One of the strongest aspects of emergent queer of color critiques is their ability to employ a multiplicity of tactics to decode nationalist (both colonizing and colonized) strategies. Yet the absence of Native peoples and histories in formulating these emergent theories should give...

... Sovereignty: Certainty, Ambivalence, and Law in Native North America and Indigenous Australia .” Wicazo Sa Review 25 , no. 2 : 107 – 24 . ...

... NATIVE DISPOSSESSION Mary Zaborskis Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance Mark Rifkin Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. xxii + 293 pp. Mark Rifkin’s latest book names “settler common...

...Corinne E. Blackmer Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 ETHNOPORN, LESBIAN CHILDHOOD, AND NATIVE MATERNAL CULTURE Reading National Geographic with Elizabeth Bishop Corinne E. Blackmer The terms ethnoporn and lesbian childhood would seem intrinsic oxymorons. Photographs of...

...Evan B. Towle; Lynn M. Morgan Duke University Press 2002 ROMANCING THE TRANSGENDER NATIVE Rethinking the Use of the “Third Gender” Concept Evan B. Towle and Lynn M. Morgan This essay offers a critical examination of how “third gender” concepts are used in popular American writing by...

...Mark Rifkin The Queerness of Native American Literature . Tatonetti Lisa . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2014 . xxii + 278 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 BOOKS IN BRIEF 315 LOOKING FOR THE QUEER IN...

.... Francisco de Zacatecas . Mexico: José Bernardo de Hogal, 1737.Reprinted 1851 . (143-44). Bancroft , Hubert Howe. The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America . 2 vols . New York: D. Appleton, 1875 -83. Bandelier , Adolf F. The Southwestern Journals of Adolph F. Bandelier...

... U.S. queers as regulatory over the racialized and sexualized populations targeted within the imperial biopolitics of the war on terror. I explain homonationalism as a quality of U.S. queer modernities having formed within a colonial biopolitics, in which the terrorizing sexual colonization of Native...

...Daniel Heath Justice; Mark Rifkin; Bethany Schneider This special issue proposes that dialogue between Native studies and queer studies can contribute to our understanding of the U.S. nation-state, Native polities and peoplehood, and the complex role of culture(s) in political expression and...

...Mary Zaborskis This essay examines the production of Native queer childhood in nineteenth- and twentieth-century boarding schools. I argue that the schools produced “sexual orphanings” in Native children, which was achieved through education and abuse that queered Native children's...

...Ruthann Lee This essay considers the production of racialized masculinities in the contemporary artwork of the Singaporean-born queer diasporic artist Dominique Hui and the queer Aboriginal/Cree artist Kent Monkman. Recent debates in anti-racist feminist, queer, and Native feminist scholarship...

...Lisa Tatonetti This essay examines the construction of Two-Spirit identity in three contemporary narrative films, Big Eden, Johnny Greyeyes , and The Business of Fancydancing , arguing that, despite each story's focus on a queer Native protagonist, by their conclusions each film fractures Two...

... it is precisely this proprietary feature of desire, being claimed by the lover as “mine,” that translates the poem's Native speaker from an unrecognizable status into a fully human subject. I also argue, with Stevens, that the way we unthinkingly speak about our desires using colonial metaphors of...

... Africa and the Americas to Europe, Africans' travel to and on the Pacific as sailors, soldiers, dockworkers, and curious voyagers traced other kinds of crossings: linkages between black Atlantic subjects and Mexico, Native America, Polynesia, Micronesia, the Philippines, and other sites of flow through...

... interrogate the “object” of queer studies but to change the direction of Native American studies as well. To this end, this special issue is an ambitious one, and it stands out not only because the voices here are so crisp and critically engaged but also because there is a fair amount of subtle...

...Scott Lauria Morgensen When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty Rifkin Mark Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2011 . viii + 436 pp . © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Books in Brief Maybe Midlife, But No Crisis: Queer...

... JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES Sovereignty, the Queer Condition Scott Lauria Morgensen When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty Mark Rifkin Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. viii + 436 pp...

... History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty Mark Rifkin Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. viii + 436 pp. In When Did Indians Become Straight? Mark Rifkin shatters expectations that a non-­Native scholar will argue for the inclusion of “Indians” in queer...

... JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES Sovereignty, the Queer Condition Scott Lauria Morgensen When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty Mark Rifkin Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. viii + 436 pp...