The Transit of Empire

Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism

Bibliographic Data

ID19599010
AuthorsJodi A Byrd (corresponding author)
Year2011
Pages294
Publication date2011-09-22
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe transit of empire (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5749/minnesota/9780816676408.001.0001
OpenAlexW4214928748
Open LibraryOL24885672M
ISBN9780816676408
LanguageEN
Citations received550

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 lands, territories, and resources. Examining an array of literary texts, historical moments, and pending legislations-from the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma’s vote in 2007 to expel Cherokee Freedmen to the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization bill—the book demonstrates that inclusion into the multicultural cosmopole does not end colonialism as it is purported to do. Rather, that inclusion is the very site of the colonization that feeds U.S. empire. The book contends that the colonization of American Indian and indigenous nations is the necessary ground from which to reimagine a future where the losses of indigenous peoples are not only visible and, in turn, grieveable, but where indigenous peoples have agency to transform life on their own lands and on their own terms

Alien · Ancient history · Archaeology · Cherokee · Citizenship · Colonialism · Empire · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Hegemony · Indigenous · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Transit (satellite) · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Law · Colonization · Government relations · Historia · Imperialism · Imperialismus · Indianer · Indians of North America · Kolonisering · Racism · Rasism · Rassismus · Relationer till myndigheter · Selbstbestimmung · Social aspects · Sociala aspekter · united states

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