{"product_id":"native-acts-law-recognition-and-cultural-authenticity-paperback","title":"Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoanne Barker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the United States, Native peoples must be able to demonstrably look and act like the Natives of U.S. national narrations in order to secure their legal rights and standing as Natives. How they choose to navigate these demands and the implications of their choices for Native social formations are the focus of this powerful critique. Joanne Barker contends that the concepts and assumptions of cultural authenticity within Native communities potentially reproduce the very social inequalities and injustices of racism, ethnocentrism, sexism, homophobia, and fundamentalism that define U.S. nationalism and, by extension, Native oppression. She argues that until the hold of these ideologies is genuinely disrupted by Native peoples, the important projects for decolonization and self-determination defining Native movements and cultural revitalization efforts are impossible. These projects fail precisely by reinscribing notions of authenticity that are defined in U.S. nationalism to uphold relations of domination between the United States and Native peoples, as well as within Native social and interpersonal relations. \u003ci\u003eNative Acts\u003c\/i\u003e is a passionate call for Native peoples to decolonize their own concepts and projects of self-determination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoanne Barker is Associate Professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eSovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.2 x 6.17 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 12, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450081689778,"sku":"9780822348511","price":56.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/f89d7bc6ec8e75de74365e43f648261e.webp?v=1778779819","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/native-acts-law-recognition-and-cultural-authenticity-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}