Jodi A Byrd
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jodi A Byrd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jodi A |
| FAMILY NAME | Byrd |
| SIGNATURE | BYRD J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Settler-Colonial Elimination and theDobbsDecision
Jodi A. Byrd and Joseph M. Pierce discuss the Supreme Court decisions Dobbs v. Jackson and Haaland v. Brackeen, which upheld the legality of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act. In this wide-ranging conversation, the authors reflect on "what Indigenous studies and queer studies can bring together," considering Indigenous dispossession, kinship, settler colonialism, sovereignty, and reciprocity, among many other subjects
On Being Committed to Indigenous Feminist Interventions’: Jodi Byrd and Eve Tuck in Conversation
Colonial Racial Capitalism
Catastrophe, Care, and All That Remains
During 2020 a menacing sense of doom and anxiety proliferated by the Trump administration's shock-and-awe tactics compounded the brutally uneven distribution of exposure, social atomization, precarity, abandonment, and premature death under the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has had especially lethal consequences for those who are impoverished, racially abjected, and deemed violable or disposable within economies of dispossession. For Indigenous…
Rage, Indigenous Feminisms, and the Politics of Survival
For the Rage special issue, feminist and legal scholar Sarah Deer (Muscogee [Creek]), University Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, and Jodi A. Byrd (Chickasaw), associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, engage in a powerful roundtable conversation moderated by the Rage special issue editors Harvard feminist professor Durba Mitra and UCLA feminist professor Sarah Haley. In their rich exchange, we lea…
What’s Normative Got to Do with It
This article considers the queer problem of Indigenous studies that exists in the disjunctures and disconnections that emerge when queer studies, Indigenous studies, and Indigenous feminisms are brought into conversation. Reflecting on what the material and grounded body of indigeneity could mean in the context of settler colonialism, where Indigenous women and queers are disappeared into nowhere, and in light of Indigenous insistence on land as …
To Hear the Call and Respond: Grounded Relationalities and the Spaces of Emergence
To Hear the Call and Respond: Grounded Relationalities and the Spaces of Emergence Jodi A. Byrd (bio) In his 2018 presidential address, Roderick Ferguson gives us a vision for the American Studies Association that not only activates radical traditions but places them within the temporal, spatial, and sonic cacophonies of the land and histories, the stories and songs, from which they emerge. Entangling his own familial genealogies with the intelle…
Variations under Domestication
This essay draws upon critical ethnic studies, Indigenous critical theory, and settler colonial studies to consider how biopolitics and biocapital have converged in North America through the racial regimes inaugurated by settler colonialism. It does so by close reading the popular science fiction television series Orphan Black to interrogate how late colonialism saturates cultural productions and to demonstrate how dispossession functions through…
Beast of America
Close reading Irrational Games’s 2013 BioShock Infinite to consider how notions of the wild circulate at the site of the both absent and present Indian, this essay argues that the ontological turn in technology studies is predicated on the juridical, racial, gendered, and colonial violences enacted in the spaces between the civil and the savage, the beast and the human. The recent ascendancy of object-oriented theory within videogame studies alon…
Predatory Value
This essay introduces and theorizes the central concerns of this special issue, “Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism.” Financialization, debt, and the accelerated concentration of wealth today work through social relations already configured and disposed by imperial conquest and racial capitalism. In the Americas broadly and the United States specifically, colonization and transatlantic slavery set in motion the dynamics and…
Loving Unbecoming: The Queer Politics of the Transitive Native
Loving Unbecoming: The Queer Politics of the Transitive Native
This chapter offers provisional thoughts on the collisions and collusions of queer theory and colonialism within critical Indigenous studies through a close reading of queer theory's subjectlessness, Samuel R. Delaney's short story "Aye, and Gomorrah," and the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Loving v. Virginia on antimiscegenation law. It argues that Indigenous critiques of colonialism challenge social normativities in ways that are deeply …
‘Do they not have rational souls?’: Consolidation and sovereignty in digital new worlds
'Prepare to die' ads for the video game series Dark Souls warn, and indeed the series is known for its punishing, hard core gameplay that promises gamers failure over and over again. Notorious and celebrated for its difficulty, the game series created by FromSoftware, Inc. presents players with an alienated world of violence that demands exploration tied to conquest to control space, advance past demonic creatures, and achieve dominance over terr…
Still Waiting for the “Post” to Arrive: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn and the Imponderables of American Indian Postcoloniality
Still Waiting for the “Post” to ArriveElizabeth Cook-Lynn and the Imponderables of American Indian Postcoloniality Jodi A. Byrd (bio) In her 1996 collection, Why I Can’t Read Wallace Stegner, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn issued a call for American Indian studies to take up a larger body of Third World criticism. Her goal was to reframe American Indian literary and critical productions within the anticolonial intellectual traditions of the global South and…
Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for global Native literary studies by Chadwick Allen (review)
Reviewed by: Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for global Native literary studies by Chadwick Allen Jodi A. Byrd Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for global Native literary studies By Chadwick Allen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. One of the more gratifying aspects of studying Indigenous issues at the moment, especially given that the scholarship seems poised to offer a sustained transformation of the conversations pursued at the …
Tribal 2.0: Digital Natives, Political Players, and the Power of Stories
Tribal 2.0Digital Natives, Political Players, and the Power of Stories Jodi A. Byrd (bio) "Native stories are power. They create people. They author tribes. America is a tribal creation story, a tribalography," writes LeAnne Howe as the beginning call-out to her methodology that forms the intellectual center of this special issue for sail (Howe, "Story" 29). While Howe seeks to draw new lines within old traditions and along the way remind us that…
Follow the typical signs: Settler sovereignty and its discontents
Comments made as part of a roundtable discussion on the significance of the US frontier to settler colonial and indigenous studies. Reflecting on the creation and circulation of settler sovereignty as a technology of territoriality, this essay considers how frontier logics inform Jacques Derrida's delineation of the beast and the sovereign in his late lectures. Finally, this essay argues for a perspectival shift in the questions scholars ask abou…
A Return to the South
Written as a meditation, this essay considers how indigeneity challenges the geopolitical formations of "souths" within and beyond the US nation-state. In particular, Southeastern American Indians provide an important analytic through which to reconceptualize hemispheric understandings of race, place, and temporality that are often collapsed into discussion of a global South or often conscripted into absence in the assumption of a global North. D…
Killing States
This chapter presents a reading of Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange. It considers discussions of multiculturalism in Los Angeles at the end of the twentieth century to understand how narratives of race and indigeneity within the United States have been recycled to provide a justifying logic for the transit of empire mapped onto Asian American bodies. It analyzes how indigenous peoples are discursively transformed into immigrants, while Asia…
The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism
In 1761 and again in 1769, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. This book explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that serves as precedent within U.S. imperial history. The book argues that contemporary U.S. empire expands itself through a transferable “Indianness” that facilitates acquisitions of …
‘Been to the Nation, Lord, but I Couldn't Stay There’: American Indian Sovereignty, Cherokee Freedmen and the Incommensurability of the Internal
This essay takes as its case study the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma's 2007 vote to disenfranchise approximately 2,800 Cherokee Freedmen (African-Cherokee descendents of slaves once held by members of the Cherokee Nation) in violation of the treaty the Cherokee Nation signed with the United States in 1866 to end the Civil War. Arguing that indigenous sovereignty and political status is incommensurable with the ‘internal’ to the United States, the e…
Between Subalternity and Indigeneity: Critical Categories for Postcolonial Studies
This introductory essay addresses the conditions for possible exchange between subaltern studies and indigenous and American Indian studies. It highlights the special significance of Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' as an inaugurating moment of postcolonial studies in the US with important implications for those working in indigenous studies. Scholars in postcolonial and indigenous/American Indian studies share an interest in challenging the l…
Introduction: International Discourses of Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities
The articles in this second of a series of three issues edited by faculty in the Political Science Department at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa examine the concept of “indigeneity” as it pertains to aspects of law, policy, and governance. Focused on the array of temporal and historical issues surrounding nationhood, citizenship, law, and policy, the authors interrogate how historical legal systems evolve through control of and resistance by i…
Living My Native Life Deadly: Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides
In the City of Blinding Lights: Indigeneity, Cultural Studies and the Errants of Colonial Nostalgia
US-based cultural studies often prioritises issues of race, class, and gender within popular representations of the 'other' at the expense of undertheorising, especially within its own settler colonial history, issues of indigeneity, colonialism, and imperialism. This essay takes as a case study the US 2008 Democratic presidential primary cycle in which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ran for their party's nomination by claiming that their succe…
Predatory Value
This essay introduces and theorizes the central concerns of this special issue, “Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism.” Financialization, debt, and the accelerated concentration of wealth today work through social relations already configured and disposed by imperial conquest and racial capitalism. In the Americas broadly and the United States specifically, colonization and transatlantic slavery set in motion the dynamics and…
A Return to the South
Written as a meditation, this essay considers how indigeneity challenges the geopolitical formations of "souths" within and beyond the US nation-state. In particular, Southeastern American Indians provide an important analytic through which to reconceptualize hemispheric understandings of race, place, and temporality that are often collapsed into discussion of a global South or often conscripted into absence in the assumption of a global North. D…
Variations under Domestication
This essay draws upon critical ethnic studies, Indigenous critical theory, and settler colonial studies to consider how biopolitics and biocapital have converged in North America through the racial regimes inaugurated by settler colonialism. It does so by close reading the popular science fiction television series Orphan Black to interrogate how late colonialism saturates cultural productions and to demonstrate how dispossession functions through…
Follow the typical signs: Settler sovereignty and its discontents
Comments made as part of a roundtable discussion on the significance of the US frontier to settler colonial and indigenous studies. Reflecting on the creation and circulation of settler sovereignty as a technology of territoriality, this essay considers how frontier logics inform Jacques Derrida's delineation of the beast and the sovereign in his late lectures. Finally, this essay argues for a perspectival shift in the questions scholars ask abou…
Living My Native Life Deadly: Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides
Tribal 2.0: Digital Natives, Political Players, and the Power of Stories
Tribal 2.0Digital Natives, Political Players, and the Power of Stories Jodi A. Byrd (bio) "Native stories are power. They create people. They author tribes. America is a tribal creation story, a tribalography," writes LeAnne Howe as the beginning call-out to her methodology that forms the intellectual center of this special issue for sail (Howe, "Story" 29). While Howe seeks to draw new lines within old traditions and along the way remind us that…
To Hear the Call and Respond: Grounded Relationalities and the Spaces of Emergence
To Hear the Call and Respond: Grounded Relationalities and the Spaces of Emergence Jodi A. Byrd (bio) In his 2018 presidential address, Roderick Ferguson gives us a vision for the American Studies Association that not only activates radical traditions but places them within the temporal, spatial, and sonic cacophonies of the land and histories, the stories and songs, from which they emerge. Entangling his own familial genealogies with the intelle…
In the City of Blinding Lights: Indigeneity, Cultural Studies and the Errants of Colonial Nostalgia
US-based cultural studies often prioritises issues of race, class, and gender within popular representations of the 'other' at the expense of undertheorising, especially within its own settler colonial history, issues of indigeneity, colonialism, and imperialism. This essay takes as a case study the US 2008 Democratic presidential primary cycle in which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ran for their party's nomination by claiming that their succe…
Beast of America
Close reading Irrational Games’s 2013 BioShock Infinite to consider how notions of the wild circulate at the site of the both absent and present Indian, this essay argues that the ontological turn in technology studies is predicated on the juridical, racial, gendered, and colonial violences enacted in the spaces between the civil and the savage, the beast and the human. The recent ascendancy of object-oriented theory within videogame studies alon…
Introduction: International Discourses of Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities
The articles in this second of a series of three issues edited by faculty in the Political Science Department at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa examine the concept of “indigeneity” as it pertains to aspects of law, policy, and governance. Focused on the array of temporal and historical issues surrounding nationhood, citizenship, law, and policy, the authors interrogate how historical legal systems evolve through control of and resistance by i…
On Being Committed to Indigenous Feminist Interventions’: Jodi Byrd and Eve Tuck in Conversation
In the City of Blinding Lights: Indigeneity, Cultural Studies and the Errants of Colonial Nostalgia
US-based cultural studies often prioritises issues of race, class, and gender within popular representations of the 'other' at the expense of undertheorising, especially within its own settler colonial history, issues of indigeneity, colonialism, and imperialism. This essay takes as a case study the US 2008 Democratic presidential primary cycle in which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ran for their party's nomination by claiming that their succe…
Living My Native Life Deadly: Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides
Introduction: International Discourses of Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities
The articles in this second of a series of three issues edited by faculty in the Political Science Department at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa examine the concept of “indigeneity” as it pertains to aspects of law, policy, and governance. Focused on the array of temporal and historical issues surrounding nationhood, citizenship, law, and policy, the authors interrogate how historical legal systems evolve through control of and resistance by i…
Killing States
This chapter presents a reading of Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange. It considers discussions of multiculturalism in Los Angeles at the end of the twentieth century to understand how narratives of race and indigeneity within the United States have been recycled to provide a justifying logic for the transit of empire mapped onto Asian American bodies. It analyzes how indigenous peoples are discursively transformed into immigrants, while Asia…
The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism
In 1761 and again in 1769, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. This book explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that serves as precedent within U.S. imperial history. The book argues that contemporary U.S. empire expands itself through a transferable “Indianness” that facilitates acquisitions of …
‘Been to the Nation, Lord, but I Couldn't Stay There’: American Indian Sovereignty, Cherokee Freedmen and the Incommensurability of the Internal
This essay takes as its case study the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma's 2007 vote to disenfranchise approximately 2,800 Cherokee Freedmen (African-Cherokee descendents of slaves once held by members of the Cherokee Nation) in violation of the treaty the Cherokee Nation signed with the United States in 1866 to end the Civil War. Arguing that indigenous sovereignty and political status is incommensurable with the ‘internal’ to the United States, the e…
Between Subalternity and Indigeneity: Critical Categories for Postcolonial Studies
This introductory essay addresses the conditions for possible exchange between subaltern studies and indigenous and American Indian studies. It highlights the special significance of Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' as an inaugurating moment of postcolonial studies in the US with important implications for those working in indigenous studies. Scholars in postcolonial and indigenous/American Indian studies share an interest in challenging the l…
Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for global Native literary studies by Chadwick Allen (review)
Reviewed by: Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for global Native literary studies by Chadwick Allen Jodi A. Byrd Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for global Native literary studies By Chadwick Allen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. One of the more gratifying aspects of studying Indigenous issues at the moment, especially given that the scholarship seems poised to offer a sustained transformation of the conversations pursued at the …
Tribal 2.0: Digital Natives, Political Players, and the Power of Stories
Tribal 2.0Digital Natives, Political Players, and the Power of Stories Jodi A. Byrd (bio) "Native stories are power. They create people. They author tribes. America is a tribal creation story, a tribalography," writes LeAnne Howe as the beginning call-out to her methodology that forms the intellectual center of this special issue for sail (Howe, "Story" 29). While Howe seeks to draw new lines within old traditions and along the way remind us that…
Follow the typical signs: Settler sovereignty and its discontents
Comments made as part of a roundtable discussion on the significance of the US frontier to settler colonial and indigenous studies. Reflecting on the creation and circulation of settler sovereignty as a technology of territoriality, this essay considers how frontier logics inform Jacques Derrida's delineation of the beast and the sovereign in his late lectures. Finally, this essay argues for a perspectival shift in the questions scholars ask abou…
A Return to the South
Written as a meditation, this essay considers how indigeneity challenges the geopolitical formations of "souths" within and beyond the US nation-state. In particular, Southeastern American Indians provide an important analytic through which to reconceptualize hemispheric understandings of race, place, and temporality that are often collapsed into discussion of a global South or often conscripted into absence in the assumption of a global North. D…
‘Do they not have rational souls?’: Consolidation and sovereignty in digital new worlds
'Prepare to die' ads for the video game series Dark Souls warn, and indeed the series is known for its punishing, hard core gameplay that promises gamers failure over and over again. Notorious and celebrated for its difficulty, the game series created by FromSoftware, Inc. presents players with an alienated world of violence that demands exploration tied to conquest to control space, advance past demonic creatures, and achieve dominance over terr…
Still Waiting for the “Post” to Arrive: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn and the Imponderables of American Indian Postcoloniality
Still Waiting for the “Post” to ArriveElizabeth Cook-Lynn and the Imponderables of American Indian Postcoloniality Jodi A. Byrd (bio) In her 1996 collection, Why I Can’t Read Wallace Stegner, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn issued a call for American Indian studies to take up a larger body of Third World criticism. Her goal was to reframe American Indian literary and critical productions within the anticolonial intellectual traditions of the global South and…
Loving Unbecoming: The Queer Politics of the Transitive Native
Loving Unbecoming: The Queer Politics of the Transitive Native
This chapter offers provisional thoughts on the collisions and collusions of queer theory and colonialism within critical Indigenous studies through a close reading of queer theory's subjectlessness, Samuel R. Delaney's short story "Aye, and Gomorrah," and the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Loving v. Virginia on antimiscegenation law. It argues that Indigenous critiques of colonialism challenge social normativities in ways that are deeply …
Variations under Domestication
This essay draws upon critical ethnic studies, Indigenous critical theory, and settler colonial studies to consider how biopolitics and biocapital have converged in North America through the racial regimes inaugurated by settler colonialism. It does so by close reading the popular science fiction television series Orphan Black to interrogate how late colonialism saturates cultural productions and to demonstrate how dispossession functions through…
Beast of America
Close reading Irrational Games’s 2013 BioShock Infinite to consider how notions of the wild circulate at the site of the both absent and present Indian, this essay argues that the ontological turn in technology studies is predicated on the juridical, racial, gendered, and colonial violences enacted in the spaces between the civil and the savage, the beast and the human. The recent ascendancy of object-oriented theory within videogame studies alon…
Predatory Value
This essay introduces and theorizes the central concerns of this special issue, “Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism.” Financialization, debt, and the accelerated concentration of wealth today work through social relations already configured and disposed by imperial conquest and racial capitalism. In the Americas broadly and the United States specifically, colonization and transatlantic slavery set in motion the dynamics and…
To Hear the Call and Respond: Grounded Relationalities and the Spaces of Emergence
To Hear the Call and Respond: Grounded Relationalities and the Spaces of Emergence Jodi A. Byrd (bio) In his 2018 presidential address, Roderick Ferguson gives us a vision for the American Studies Association that not only activates radical traditions but places them within the temporal, spatial, and sonic cacophonies of the land and histories, the stories and songs, from which they emerge. Entangling his own familial genealogies with the intelle…
What’s Normative Got to Do with It
This article considers the queer problem of Indigenous studies that exists in the disjunctures and disconnections that emerge when queer studies, Indigenous studies, and Indigenous feminisms are brought into conversation. Reflecting on what the material and grounded body of indigeneity could mean in the context of settler colonialism, where Indigenous women and queers are disappeared into nowhere, and in light of Indigenous insistence on land as …
Catastrophe, Care, and All That Remains
During 2020 a menacing sense of doom and anxiety proliferated by the Trump administration's shock-and-awe tactics compounded the brutally uneven distribution of exposure, social atomization, precarity, abandonment, and premature death under the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has had especially lethal consequences for those who are impoverished, racially abjected, and deemed violable or disposable within economies of dispossession. For Indigenous…
Rage, Indigenous Feminisms, and the Politics of Survival
For the Rage special issue, feminist and legal scholar Sarah Deer (Muscogee [Creek]), University Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, and Jodi A. Byrd (Chickasaw), associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, engage in a powerful roundtable conversation moderated by the Rage special issue editors Harvard feminist professor Durba Mitra and UCLA feminist professor Sarah Haley. In their rich exchange, we lea…
Colonial Racial Capitalism
On Being Committed to Indigenous Feminist Interventions’: Jodi Byrd and Eve Tuck in Conversation
Settler-Colonial Elimination and theDobbsDecision
Jodi A. Byrd and Joseph M. Pierce discuss the Supreme Court decisions Dobbs v. Jackson and Haaland v. Brackeen, which upheld the legality of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act. In this wide-ranging conversation, the authors reflect on "what Indigenous studies and queer studies can bring together," considering Indigenous dispossession, kinship, settler colonialism, sovereignty, and reciprocity, among many other subjects
Political science (21 works) · Law (20 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Indigenous (18 works) · Politics (16 works) · Colonialism (14 works) · History (13 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (10 works) · Law (8 works)