...Roy M. Huhndorf; Shari M. Huhndorf In 1971, Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), the largest indigenous land claims settlement in U.S history. Intended to resolve disputes over land and to spur economic development, ANCSA remained silent on issues of indigenous...

...Prasenjit Duara 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Prasenjit Duara Local Worlds: The Poetics and Politics of the Native Place in Modern China The modern preoccupation with the hometown or native place (guxiang, xiangtu in Chinese) is...

... Cheyfitz What Is a Just Society? Native American Philosophies and the Limits of Capitalism’s Imagination: A Brief Manifesto At their core, European states and their colonial offspring still embody the same destructive and...

...Audra Simpson This article offers a brief history of “sovereignty,” unmooring it from Western governance and the right to kill, in order to trace the life of the term within the field of Native (Indigenous) politics and Studies. Within this field, the practice of “critique” is central, examining...

.... Experiences of state formation and capitalist development under white rule made “natives” the target of normative interventions predicated upon the “dignity of work” as a self-justifying imperative. Therefore, while for whiteness work was allowed to operate as a foundation of socially inclusive citizenship...

...J. Kēhaulani Kauanui This essay focuses on the case study of Native Hawaiians and the backlash against sovereignty struggles by neoconservatives who appropriate civil rights rhetoric to claim “reverse racism” in order to dismiss indigenous national claims as exclusionary. For indigenous peoples in...

... the presence of local Anglo ranchers, Native Americans, and neighboring Mexicans. Contemporary efforts of removal and erasure of undocumented border crossers, therefore, are part of a long lineage of defining who belongs and who does not belong on these public lands. In this article, I argue that the...

...Tracy L. Friedel Idle No More has proven to be an important movement in the politicizing of Native rights and environmental issues in Canada and internationally, evidenced by the network of solidarity that quickly formed during the initial stages of organizing. Coordinated and articulated through...

... between, and beyond the capacity of technological norms. This essay offers the perspective from that underground social network of a California Native American living in Ontario, Canada, during the Idle No More movement. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 California Canada Indigenous Idle No...

... response to Michel Foucault's ontology of the present, the essay reexamines the cultural ideology and poetics of négritude in light of the idea of an untimely and fractured present. At the center of the analysis is Aimé Césaire's Notebook of a Return to the Native Land . Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques...

..., breaking the migrants’ segregation was a key factor. Paradoxically, Romanians, who enjoy greater freedom of movement, seem less willing to engage in clashes in the workplace than Burkinabés (natives of Burkina Faso), despite the latter’s more precarious legal position. The research for this article was...

... Native Land go beyond editing and into editorializing about the evolution of the Cahier . Examining issues of Marxism, surrealism, and poetic politics, this essay attempts to raise certain questions about Arnold's interpretations, while recognizing the immense value of his editorial contributions...

...) Dante's project of forging a “vulgar eloquence” grounded in a sophisticated elevation of the Italian vernacular and (b) Derek Walcott's parallel achievement of creating an Anglophone Caribbean “pseudo-epic” in language that is indebted to the tonalities and rhythms of his native St. Lucian Creole(s). This...

...Natalie Melas This essay starts from a consideration of the conditions of the emergence of Aimé Césaire's long poem Notebook of a Return to the Native Land in terms of the problem racial enunciation presents for lyric form. The essay proposes the working thesis that Césaire's Notebook is an...

... particular, it explores the relation between apocalypse and prophecy in Notebook of a Return to the Native Land and draws out some of the implications for such thinking after Césaire and négritude. Beginning with that key moment in Notebook in which Césaire demands “the end of the world,” the essay traces...

... native peoples. In the early twentieth century, Horace Kallen, John Dewey, Louis Brandeis, and others attempted to “naturalize” the increasing diversity of (European) immigration to the United States at the same time that they argued for “Americanizing” support for Zionist settlement. Kallen, Dewey, and...

...Irene Watson The laws of first peoples are connected to our traditional lands. The colonial project dispossesses us of land, but our laws are often still carried with us. These Aboriginal laws become like us, the native peoples, disconnected from country. So how is it possible for first peoples and...

... activism (particularly noticeable in ethnic studies and Native American studies programs) by the traditional scholarly agenda of “disinterested” individualized research; and the force of this agenda coupled with the changing labor market to stymie collaborative progressive action within the university. I...

...Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua This essay explores ways Native Pacific activists enact Indigenous futurities and broaden the conditions of possibility for unmaking settler colonial relations. When settler colonial relations are built on the enclosure of land as property that can then be alienated from...

...Joy James This examination of “Concerning Violence,” the first chapter of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth , reflects on the rebellion of the native intellectual against colonialism and racism. This essay argues that the possibilities of political transformation through struggles against...