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Dewey Decimal Number: 378.1982997
EAN num: 9780803282926
ISBN number: 0803282923
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Page Count: 246
Printing Date: May 01, 2004
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Continuing the thought-provoking dialogue launched in the acclaimed anthology Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians, leading Native scholars from diverse disciplines and communities offer uncompromising assessments of current scholarship on and by Indigenous peoples and the opportunities awaiting them in the Ivory Tower.
The issues covered are vital and extensive, including how activism shapes the careers of Native academics; the response of academe and Native scholars to current issues and needs in Indian Country; and the problems of racism, territoriality, and ethnic fraud in academic hiring. The contributors offer innovative approaches to incorporating Indigenous values and perspectives into the research methodologies and interpretive theories of scholarly disciplines such as psychology, political science, archaeology, and history and suggest ways to educate and train Indigenous students. They provide examples of misunderstanding and sometimes hostility from both non-Natives and Natives that threaten or circumscribe the careers of Native scholars in higher education. They also propose ways to effect meaningful change through building networks of support inside and outside the Native academic community. Designed for classroom use, Indigenizing the Academy features a series of probing questions designed to spark student discusion and essay-writing.
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Racism, misogyny, homophobia, ablism, and other powerful forces of oppression that subordinate human beings to the rule of the few over the many remain alive and well in the academy (understood as the system of institutions -- graduate schools, university presses, etc. -- that produce what constitutes academic knowledge in the world). Although there are self-proclaimed advocates for social justice who claim otherwise (revealing themselves to be cultivators of the status quo), discrimination, and its cousin hate, remain problems for non-white scholars and women professors and their allies.
NATIVE SCHOLARS SPEAK OUT
Joining Native Voices: Native American Identity and Resistance (University Press of Kansas, 2003) and Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (Zed Books, 1999), Indigenizing the Academy continues in the tradition of American Indian and Indigenous Nations academic studies that assertively -- and without apology -- argue for nation building, empowerment for Natives, and hope for the future as fundamental to the well-being of scholarship for AND BY Natives.
The volume's 13 contributors spotlight the finest and nastiest of the academy's relations with Indigenous Peoples from the United States to Australia. The editors, Devon Abbott Mihesuah and Waziyatawin Angela Wilson assert that the book "draws a line in the sand," and that they fully anticipate both allies and opponents will respond to their provocation. I especially was struck by the force of each author's argument, and their bold resolve to purge universities of their deep-rooted colonialist attitudes and behaviors -- especially the general unwillingness to apply rigorous academic standards to the scholarship rooted in lingering and continuing colonization of Indigenous Peoples. Advocating for healing the pathology of anti-Indian racism that still prevails, they argue, the academy should provide empowered scholarship and resources to all -- American Indian/Indigenous/First Nations scholars and non-Natives alike.
Published in March 2004 by the University of Nebraska Press -- the leading publisher of works in Indigenous studies -- Indigenizing the Academy is the second in the Contemporary Indigenous Issues Series edited by Mihesuah. Mihesuah is the award-winning editor of American Indian Quarterly and author of several books, including Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness (forthcoming in June 2005 from the University of Nebraska Press) and So You Want to Write About American Indians? A Guide for Scholars, Writers and Students (University of Nebraska Press, January 2005). She has written three novels, including the award-winning The Lightning Shrikes (Lyons Press, 2004), a delightful, and insightful, story about a fictional American Indian softball team in a national coed professional league sponsored by a rich and powerful Nike-like company that as a group must deal with racism, stereotyping, and coming to terms with what sucess really means.
Wilson, co-editor of Indigenizing the Academy with Mihesuah and professor of history at Arizona State University, is the author of Remember This! Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylour Narratives (forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press in 2005) and, with Michael Yellow Bird, co-editor of For Indigenous Eyes Only: The Decolonization Workbook (forthcoming from the School of American Research Press).
According to Indology.net and Amazon.com (as of January 12, 2005) Indigenizing the Academy is 18th among the top 100 best-selling books in Indian education. It is a MUST READ for everyone -- Native or non-Native -- who identifies as a practitioner of American Indian/Indigenous Nations studies or hopes to.
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The book is a compilation of poorly-researched essays, really poorly done, each belaboring bellyache ideas that we all, quite frankly, grew tired of back in high school. Example...the ridiculous diatribe into 'who is and who is not a native'. Haven't we all grown sick of that racist measuring stick yet?
Unfortunately, each essay follows the same tired format. All are made up of stereotypes, promoting such yowlers as 'all Whites think this way, vs. all indigenous people think that way...'; drawn-out complaints without substantiation, such as 'all non-native professors use gatekeeping to keep out indigenous scholars', and the like.
The book is for truly hateful, bigoted people who wish to foster an environment of fear in the academy and for those interested in engaging in senseless, time-wasting, essentialist arguments.
Save your money and time and work for justice.
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In recent decades, American historians have significantly re-evaluated the role of Native Americans in the continent's history. Largely, of course, this was done by academics who were not themselves of that ethnicity. A roundabout way of saying that most were white, and male, for that matter.
But there has also been an increasing number of Natives ascending the academic ladder. First as students, and then as faculty. A decades-long process. It has produced enough people, thus far, to enable the editors to put together this book. Here, the emphasis is not so much on changing a typical view of Natives in history, but instead on the academic environment itself, and how it impacts Natives trying to fit in. Which can be very difficult, as some articles in the book attest. A typical Native student might not have a family tradition of reaching college as a student, let alone as an academic.
The editors have amassed very articulate concerns. Quite readable.
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