Black Representations of Settlement on Film
Thomasine and Bushrod
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2408809 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Beenash Jafri (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2017 |
| Volumen | 17 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 50-59 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2017-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Editorial | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708616638697 |
| OpenAlex | W2313743126 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 32 |
This article develops a method for analyzing Indigenous erasure in popular film that focuses not on the representations (or lack thereof) of Indigenous peoples but on representations of settlement. Whereas much of the scholarship on Native representations in film has been concerned with Hollywood's promulgation of the 'mythical Indian,' I argue that a focus on settlement-rather than on bodies-is significant in the context of the ongoing, unfinished processes of colonialism, which continue to structure life in white settler states. Cultural representations that reconfigure colonial-occupied life as settled life naturalize settler colonialism while erasing and displacing Indigenous claims to land. I illuminate this method by analyzing how the 1974 'blaxploitation Western' Thomasine and Bushrod imagines settlement. The film features a pair of lovers who are on the run from the law in America's Southwest from 1911 to 1915. Because it is a film that speaks back to historical constructions of Blackness and Indigeneity, Thomasine and Bushrod productively illuminates how representations of Indigenous erasure work in often ambiguous and contradictory ways
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Erasure · Ethnology · Hollywood · Indigenous · Political science · Promulgation · Scholarship · Settlement (finance · Sociology · White (mutation · African history and culture studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Law
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The Black Power Movement
Blood Politics
Black Women, Writing and Identity
Red, White & Black
When Did Indians Become Straight?
Decolonizing Feminism
Dressing in Feathers
Killing the Indian Maiden
Settler Common Sense
Reservation Reelism
Female Masculinity
Settler Colonialism
The Transit of Empire
Terrorist Assemblages
Hawaiian Blood
Whose Home on the Range? Finding Room for Native Americans, African Americans, and Latino Americans in the Revisionist Western
The Feeling of Kinship
Settler Homonationalism
Celluloid Indians
From White into Red
Gender, Sovereignty, Rights
Spaces between Us
Going Native
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |