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Topics In Anthropology (390-0-25)

Topic

Indigeneity and Race

Instructors

Megan Alexandria Baker

Meeting Info

Locy Hall 303: Wed 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

The racialization of Indigenous polities in North America has been a key mechanism for undermining Indigenous sovereignty and facilitating settler colonialism. In analytically foregrounding Indigenous sovereignty, this course examines how race has been imposed upon Indigenous peoples and nations so settlers could dispossess them of their lands and their political authority over those lands. Through this course, we will consider how US anthropology contributed to the development of the notion of indigeneity-as-race in North America, the function of Indigenous racialization, and how Indigenous communities have grappled with their racialization throughout time and into the present.

Class Materials (Required)

- Baker, Lee D. 2010. Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture. Durham: Duke University Press. (ISBN: 978-0-8223-4698-2)
- Bhandar, Brenna. 2018. Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership. Durham: Duke University Press. (ISBN: 978-0-8223-7146-5)
- Deer, Sarah. 2015. The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (ISBN: 9780816696338)
- Krauthamer, Barbara. 2015. Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (ISBN: 978-1-4696-2187-6).