Title The transit of empire : Indigenous critiques of colonialism / Jodi A. Byrd

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxxix, 294 pages) Series First peoples : new directions Indigenous First peoples (2010) Contents Introduction: Indigenous Critical Theory and the Diminishing Returns of Civilization -- Is and Was: Poststructural Indians without Ancestry -- "This Island's Mine": The Parallax Logics of Caliban's Cacophony -- The Masks of Conquest: Wilson Harris's Jonestown and the Thresholds of Grievability -- "Been to the Nation, Lord, but I Couldn't Stay There": Cherokee Freedmen, Internal Colonialism, and the Racialization of Citizenship -- Satisfied with Stones: Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization and the Discourses of Resistance -- Killing States: Removals, Other Americans, and the "Pale Promise of Democracy" -- Conclusion: Zombie Imperialism Summary "In 1761 and again in 1768, 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. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how Indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that serves as precedent within U.S. imperial history. Byrd 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--Byrd 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. Byrd 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" -- Provided by the publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), Best First Book, 2011 Subject Indians of North America -- Government relations -- History Indians of North America -- Colonization -- United States Imperialism -- Social aspects -- United States Racism -- United States -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. Imperialism -- Social aspects Indians of North America -- Colonization Indians of North America -- Government relations Racism Imperialismus Indianer Rassismus Selbstbestimmung Indians of North America -- Government relations -- History. Indians of North America -- Colonization -- United States. Imperialism -- Social aspects -- United States. Racism -- United States -- History. Indianer -- relationer till myndigheter -- historia -- Nordamerika. Indianer -- kolonisering -- historia -- Förenta staterna. Imperialism -- sociala aspekter -- Förenta staterna. Rasism -- historia -- Förenta staterna. United States USA Indianer. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2011023623 ISBN 9780816678709 0816678707 9781452947754 1452947759 1299946739 9781299946736

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