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Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies
Responding to the recent indigenous turn in American studies, the essays in this volume inform discussion about indigeneity, race, gender, modernity, nation, state power, and globalization in interdisciplinary and broadly comparative global ways.

Organized into three thematic sections—Spaces of the Pacific, “Unexpected Indigenous” Modernity, and Nation and Nation-State—Alternative Contact reveals how Native American studies and empowerment movements in the 1960s and 1970s decentered paradigms of Native American–European “first contact.” Among other kinds of contact, the contributors also imagine alternative connections between indigenous and American studies.

The subject of United States military and government hegemony has long overshadowed discussions of contact with peoples of other origins. The articles in this volume explore transnational and cross-ethnic exchanges among indigenous peoples of the Americas, including the Caribbean and Pacific Islands. Such moments of alternative contact complicate and enrich our understanding of the links between sovereignty, racial formation, and U.S. colonial and imperial projects. Ultimately, Alternative Contact theorizes a more dynamic indigeneity that articulates new or overlooked connections among peoples, histories, cultures, and critical discourses within a global context.

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Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies
Responding to the recent indigenous turn in American studies, the essays in this volume inform discussion about indigeneity, race, gender, modernity, nation, state power, and globalization in interdisciplinary and broadly comparative global ways.

Organized into three thematic sections—Spaces of the Pacific, “Unexpected Indigenous” Modernity, and Nation and Nation-State—Alternative Contact reveals how Native American studies and empowerment movements in the 1960s and 1970s decentered paradigms of Native American–European “first contact.” Among other kinds of contact, the contributors also imagine alternative connections between indigenous and American studies.

The subject of United States military and government hegemony has long overshadowed discussions of contact with peoples of other origins. The articles in this volume explore transnational and cross-ethnic exchanges among indigenous peoples of the Americas, including the Caribbean and Pacific Islands. Such moments of alternative contact complicate and enrich our understanding of the links between sovereignty, racial formation, and U.S. colonial and imperial projects. Ultimately, Alternative Contact theorizes a more dynamic indigeneity that articulates new or overlooked connections among peoples, histories, cultures, and critical discourses within a global context.

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Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies

Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies

Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies

Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies

Overview

Responding to the recent indigenous turn in American studies, the essays in this volume inform discussion about indigeneity, race, gender, modernity, nation, state power, and globalization in interdisciplinary and broadly comparative global ways.

Organized into three thematic sections—Spaces of the Pacific, “Unexpected Indigenous” Modernity, and Nation and Nation-State—Alternative Contact reveals how Native American studies and empowerment movements in the 1960s and 1970s decentered paradigms of Native American–European “first contact.” Among other kinds of contact, the contributors also imagine alternative connections between indigenous and American studies.

The subject of United States military and government hegemony has long overshadowed discussions of contact with peoples of other origins. The articles in this volume explore transnational and cross-ethnic exchanges among indigenous peoples of the Americas, including the Caribbean and Pacific Islands. Such moments of alternative contact complicate and enrich our understanding of the links between sovereignty, racial formation, and U.S. colonial and imperial projects. Ultimately, Alternative Contact theorizes a more dynamic indigeneity that articulates new or overlooked connections among peoples, histories, cultures, and critical discourses within a global context.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781421400600
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 05/01/2011
Series: A Special Issue of American Quarterly
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Paul Lai teaches English at the University of St. Thomas and specializes in Asian American studies.

Lindsey Claire Smith is an assistant professor of English at Oklahoma State University and author of Indians, Environment, and Identity on the Borders of American Literature.

Table of Contents

Preface Curtis Marez vii

Introduction Paul Lai Lindsey Claire Smith 1

Spaces of the Pacific

Attacking Trust: Hawai'i as a Crossroads and Kamehameha Schools in the Crosshairs Judy Rohrer 31

Kewaikaliko's Benocide: Reversing the Imperial Gaze of Rice v. Cayetano and Its Legal Progeny Dean Itsuji Saranillio 51

Indigeneity in the Diaspora: The Case of Native Hawaiians at Iosepa, Utah Hokulani K. Aikau 71

Bridging Indigenous and Immigrant Struggles: A Case Study of American Samoa JoAnna Poblete-Cross 95

Experimental Encounters: Filipino and Hawaiian Bodies in the U.S. Imperial Invention of Odontoclasia, 1928-1946 Jean J. Kim 117

Los Indios Bravos: The Filipino/American Lyric and the Cosmopoetics of Comparative Indigeneity Stephen Hong Sohn 141

"Unexpected" Indigenous Modernity

Decolonization in Unexpected Places: Native Evangelicalism and the Rearticulation of Mission Andrea Smith 163

Transnational Indigenous Exchange: Rethinking Global Interactions of Indigenous Peoples at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition Danika Medak-Saltzman 185

"Sioux Yells" in the Dawes Era: Lakota "Indian Play," the Wild West, and the Literatures of Luther Standing Bear Ryan E.Burt 211

Mexican Indigenismo, Choctaw Self-Determination, and Todd Downing's Detective Novels James H. Cox 233

Maori Cowboys, Maori Indians Alice Te Punga Somerville 257

A Dying West? Reimagining the Frontier in Frank Matsura's Photography, 1903-1913 Glen M. Mimura 281

Nation and Nation-State

Between Dangerous Extremes: Victimization, Ultranationalism, and Identity Performance in Gerald Vizenor's Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 Jeanne Sokolowski 311

Toward a U.S.-China Comparative Critique: Indigenous Rights and National Expansion in Alex Kuo's Panda Diaries Wen Jin 333

"Sowing Death in Our Women's Wombs": Modernization and Indigenous Nationalism in the 1960s Peace Corps and Jorge Sanjinés' Yawar Mallku Molly Geidel 357

Contributors 381

Index 385

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