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Contesting Constructed Indian-Ness
The Intersection of the Frontier, Masculinity, and Whiteness in Native American Mascot Representations
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2013
Summary
Native American sports team mascots represent a contemporary problem for modern Native American people. The ideas embedded in the mascot representations, however, are as old as the ideas constructed about the Indian since contact between the peoples of Western and the Eastern hemispheres. Such ideas conceived about Native Americans go hand-in-hand with the machinations of colonialism and conquest of these people. This research looks at how such ideas inform the construction of identity of white males from historic experiences with Native Americans. Notions of “playing Indian” and of “going Native” are precipitated from these historic contexts such that in the contemporary sense of considering Native Americans, popular culture ideas dress Native Americans in feathers and buckskin in order to satisfy stereotypic expectations of Indian-ness.
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Edition
1/2013
Copyright Year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7864-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7865-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
147
Product Type
Monograph
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Contesting Constructed Indian-ness No access Pages 1 - 26
1 The Frontier as Place/Space No access Pages 27 - 52
2 Gender, Masculinity, and Male Identity No access Pages 53 - 72
3 White Identity, White Ideologies, and Conditions of Whiteness No access Pages 73 - 90
4 Constructing the Native Voice No access Pages 91 - 118
