Out of the Binary and Beyond the Spectrum
Redefining and Reclaiming Native American Race
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18955967 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alex R Steers-Mccrum (The Graduate Center, CUNY, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 216-238 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Philosophy of Race (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2165-8684 • E-ISSN: 2165-8692 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/critphilrace.6.2.0216 |
| OpenAlex | W2883771886 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
Race in the United States is most often talked about in terms of black and white, sometimes as a spectrum running from whiteness to blackness. Such a conception does not map onto actual racial structures in the United States and excludes Native Americans. This article will criticize this binary, detailing a theory of race in which colonialism and racism are prior to racial formation, following Patrick Wolfe and Michael Omi and Howard Winant. In assembling this theory, this article attempts to bridge philosophical critical race studies and Native American and Indigenous Peoples studies. It argues that to be a member of a race is to be in a relationship of dominance and resistance with settler colonialism. It discusses the implications of a political mode (following Tommie Shelby) of Native race in greater detail, including how it can be differentiated from ethnicity and tribal identity, and how it might be politically useful in anti-domination solidarity. Finally, the article examines the similarities and differences between Native race as construed here and concepts of being Indigenous, suggesting that what Indigenous is at the global level, Native race may be at the local
Ethnology · Native american · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Race, Genetics, and Society
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The Origins of Indigenism
Narratives of Race and Indigeneity in the Genographic Project
Indigenousness and Indigeneity
Gender, Race, and the Regulation of Native Identity in Canada and the United States
Appiah’s Uncompleted Argument
Racial Formation in the United States
The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
We Who Are Dark
Native Americans in America
The Fluid Symbol of Mixed Race
Navigating Our Own “Sea of Islands
Where Did Red Go
Genomic articulations of indigeneity
Felt Theory
Notes toward a Native Feminism's Spatial Practice
Custer's Last Sitcom
What We Want to Be Called
Indigenous Cosmopolitics in the Andes
| Highly cited | No |
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