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10%OFFLucy Maddox - Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform - 9780801473425 - V9780801473425
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Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform

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Description for Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages, 5. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 280.

By the 1890s, white Americans were avid consumers of American Indian cultures. At heavily scripted Wild West shows, Chautauquas, civic pageants, expositions, and fairs, American Indians were most often cast as victims, noble remnants of a vanishing race, or docile candidates for complete assimilation. However, as Lucy Maddox demonstrates in Citizen Indians, some prominent Indian intellectuals of the era—including Gertrude Bonnin, Charles Eastman, and Arthur C. Parker—were able to adapt and reshape the forms of public performance as one means of entering the national conversation and as a core strategy in the pan-tribal reform efforts that paralleled other Progressive-era reform ... Read more

Maddox examines the work of American Indian intellectuals and reformers in the context of the Society of American Indians, which brought together educated, professional Indians in a period when the "Indian question" loomed large. These thinkers belonged to the first generation of middle-class American Indians more concerned with racial categories and civil rights than with the status of individual tribes. They confronted acute crises: the imposition of land allotments, the abrogation of the treaty process, the removal of Indian children to boarding schools, and the continuing denial of birthright citizenship to Indians that maintained their status as wards of the state. By adapting forms of public discourse and performance already familiar to white audiences, Maddox argues, American Indian reformers could more effectively pursue self-representation and political autonomy.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801473425
SKU
V9780801473425
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About Lucy Maddox
Lucy Maddox is Professor of English at Georgetown University. She is the author of Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs and Nabokov's Novels in English and the editor of Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline. Maddox was Editor of American Quarterly from 1994 to 2003.

Reviews for Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform
Lucy Maddox describes the efforts of Native intellectuals to transform the public's conception of the Indian. She centers her discussion around the Society of American Indians (SAI), a group of diverse Native activists who held disparate views on how Indian people ought to accommodate and contest majority conceptualizations.... Some have contended that the SAI's efforts were futile, and they point ... Read more

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