Anti-Indianism in Modern America

By Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Subjects: Ethnic relations, Indians of north america, study and teaching, Indiens d'Amérique dans la littérature, Indiens d'Amérique, Indiens d'Amérique dans l'art, United states, ethnic relations, Study and teaching, Indians of North America, Relations avec l'État, Indians of north america, government relations, Indians, pictorial works, Étude et enseignement, Relations interethniques, Indians in art, Indians in literature, Government relations

Description: "In this work, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn confronts the politics and policies of genocide that continue to destroy the land, livelihood, and culture of Native Americans. Anti-Indianism in Modern America tells the other side of stories of historical massacres and modern-day hate crimes, events that are dismissed or glossed over by historians, journalists, and courts alike. Cook-Lynn exposes the colonialism that works both overtly and covertly to silence and diminish Native Americans, supported by a rhetoric of reconciliation, assimilation, and multiculturalism. Comparing anti-Indianism to anti-Semitism, she sets the American history of broken treaties, stolen lands, mass murder, cultural dispossession, and Indian hating in an international context of ethnic cleansing, "ecocide" (environmental destruction), and colonial oppression."--BOOK JACKET.