Anti-Indianism in Modern America
Subtitle: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: July 25, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780252026621
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Multicultural studies; Native Americans; U.S. - Political And Civil Rights Of Native Americans; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; USA; Discrimination & Racism; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; United States - General; Social Science / Native American Studies; Native American; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Government relations; Indians in art; Indians in literature; Indians of North America; Study and teaching
First sentence: Anti-Indianism is probably the foremost challenge to U.S. history and art, two major disciplines that often claim to be ethically neutral.
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.