Conquest

Sexual Violence And American Indian Genocide

Author: Andrea Smith
ISBN: 9780896087439

A recognized Native American scholar and co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, the largest grassroots, multiracial feminist organization in the country, Andrea Smith (Cherokee) is an emerging leader in progressive political circles. In Conquest, Smith places Native American women at the center of her analysis of sexual violence, challenging both conventional definitions of the term and conventional responses to the problem.Beginning with the impact of the abuses inflicted on Native American children at state-sanctioned boarding schools from the 1880s to the 1980s, Smith adroitly expands our conception of violence to include environmental racism, population control and the widespread appropriation of Indian cultural practices by whites and other non-natives. Smith deftly connects these and other examples of historical and contemporary colonialism to the high rates of violence against Native American women—the most likely women in the United States to die of poverty-re

Publisher: South End Press
Publish Date: 2005

Subjects: Social Science / Women's Studies, Education / Multicultural Education, Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations, Political Science / World / General, History / Native American, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Social Science / Violence in Society, Social Science / Sociology / General, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Native American (NATV))