American Indian Permission for Mascots
Resistance or Complicity within Rhetorical Colonialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12465366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Danielle Endres (0000-0002-6532-2524, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 649-690 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rhetoric and Public Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-8392 • E-ISSN: 1534-5238 |
| Publisher | Michigan State University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0649 |
| OpenAlex | W2275005964 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 37 |
In 2005 the National Collegiate Athletic Association banned the use of American Indian symbols such as mascots, nicknames, and imagery in postseason sporting events. However, several universities successfully appealed this decision by demonstrating permission from eponymous American Indian nations. The focus of this essay is on the rhetorical implications of this permission argument within American Indian rhetoric about American Indian mascots, nicknames, and imagery. Drawing from the lens of rhetorical colonialism and an examination of the University of Utah Utes, I reveal how American Indian permission for mascots can be seen as upholding rather than challenging the system of colonialism through a form of self-colonization
Argument (complex analysis · Art · Colonialism · Complicity · Literature · Media studies · Permission · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Theology · Academic Freedom and Politics · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
I Wanna Be Like You
What’s in a Name? Symbolic Racism, Public Opinion, and the Controversy over the NFL’s Washington Football Team Name
The Appropriation of Native American Culture for Sports Logos, Mascots, and Nicknames
Decolonizing Settler Public Address
The Water Protectors at Standing Rock
American Magnitude
The psychosocial effects of Native American mascots
A Manifestation of Their City as a God”
The Alphafly Outcry
The nations within
Violence over the land
The Wretched of the Earth
From Cultural Exchange to Transculturation
The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism
Blood-Speak
Delinking Rhetoric, or Revisiting McGee’s Fragmentation Thesis through Decoloniality
Native Authenticity, Rhetorical Circulation, and Neocolonial Decay
Postcolonial Interventions in the Rhetorical Canon
Civilized Colonialism
The critique of vernacular discourse
Mascot Matters
American Indian Sovereignty and the U. S. Supreme Court
Decolonizing Imaginaries
Native Resistive Rhetoric and the Decolonization of American Indian Removal Discourse
Between myth and history
Indians,” “Braves,” and “Redskins”
Native American rhetoric
Native Images in Schools and the Racially Hostile Environment
Enacting red power
Toward a Tribal Critical Race Theory in Education
Indian Tribes as Sovereign Governments
Education for Extinction
A History of Utah's American Indians
The "Mascotting" of Native America
Rhetorical Exclusion
By Any Other Name
Language, Violence, and Indian Mis-education
Of Polls and Race Prejudice
Race, Place, and Biography at Play
You Know, We Are All Indian
The Mascot Slot
I'M Indian Too
This Is Not an Indian
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |