Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America

by Eva Garroutte

Overview

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and new norms for racial identity. Eva Marie Garroutte examines the changing processes of racial identification and their implications by looking specifically at the case of American Indians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520229778
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	07/31/2003
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	1470L (what's this?)

About the Author

Eva Marie Garroutte is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston College.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Chief Who Never Was
1. Enrollees and Outalucks: Law
2. "If He Gets a Nosebleed, He’ll Turn into a White Man": Biology
3. What If My Grandma Eats Big Macs? Culture
4. If You’re Indian and You Know It (But Others Don’t): Self-Identification
5. "Whaddaya Mean ‘We,’ White Man?":
Identity Conflicts and a Radical Indigenism
6. Allowing the Ancestors to Speak:
Radical Indigenism and New/Old Definitions of Identity
Conclusion: Long Lance’s Ghost and the Spirit of Future Scholarship

Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index