An ethnographic study of the Ch orti Maya of Guatemala and their reformulation of their history and identity.... Lees meer.

Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas o... Lees meer.

In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act HHCA of 1921 the U.S. Congress defined native Hawaiians as those people with at least one-half blood quantum of individuals inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778. This blood logic has since become an entrenched part... Lees meer.

This book critically explores how police power manifested beyond criminal law into the field of public health during the pandemic. This book critically explores how police power manifested beyond criminal law into the field of public health during the pandemic. Whilst... Lees meer.

Although ethnic Malays make up the majority of the Malaysian population and are the ruling class of the nation there are also indigenous peoples including the Suku Asli. Indigenous peoples are not self-evidently indigenous from the start. They are a political framewor... Lees meer.

How do videos movies and documentaries dedicated to indigenous communities transform the media landscape of South Asia. Based on extensive original research this book examines how in South Asia popular music videos activist political clips movies and documentaries... Lees meer.

Since the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917 the state has engaged in vigorous campaign to forge a unified national identity. Within the context of this effort Indians are at once both denigrated and romanticized. Often marginalized they are nonetheless subjects o... Lees meer.

Racism Colonialism and Indigeneity in Canada. A Reader is a reader collecting the writings of Indigenous North Americans on racism and colonialism and the impact these forces have had-and continue to have-on the lives of Indigenous peoples. This is a collection that... Lees meer.

Confronts the chronic displacement of Indigeneity in the politics and discourse around race in American political theory and culture arguing that the ongoing influence of settler-colonialism has undermined efforts to understand Indigenous politics while also hindering... Lees meer.

Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various contexts political social and cultural that have shaped the study of Canadian literature and the role it plays in our understanding of the Canadian na... Lees meer.

In Fictions of Land and Flesh Mark Rifkin explores the impasses that arise in seeking to connect Black and Indigenous movements turning to speculative fiction to understand those difficulties and envision productive ways of addressing them. Against efforts to subsume... Lees meer.

In the Global South indigenous people have been continuously subjected to top-down and often violent processes of post-colonial state and nation building. This book examines the development dilemmas of the indigenous people adivasis of the Indian state of Kerala. I... Lees meer.

Winner of a NWSA University of Illinois Press First Book Prize Nishant Upadhyay unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colonialist relationship with Indigenous peoples lands and nations in Canada. Upadhyay examines the interwoven and simultaneous areas of... Lees meer.

Conceptually rich and grounded in cutting-edge research this book addresses the often-overlooked roles and implications of diversity and indigeneity in curriculum. Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the development of teacher education in Guatemala L pez provides... Lees meer.

Truly Human explores the lifeworlds ethics and political strategies of Indigenous peoples in Taiwan amid colonialism geopolitical tensions and internal political conflicts. The Sediq and Truku Indigenous peoples on the mountainous island of Formosa today call... Lees meer.