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Title Who is an Indian? : race, place, and the politics of indigeneity in the Americas / edited by Maximilian C. Forte.

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 254 pages .)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: "Who Is an Indian?" The Cultural Politics of a Bad Question -- Inuitness and Territoriality in Canada -- Federally Unrecognized Indigenous Communities in Canadian Contexts -- The Canary in the Coal Mine: What Sociology Can Learn from Ethnic Identity Debates among American Indians -- "This Sovereignty Thing": Nationality, Blood, and the Cherokee Resurgence -- Locating Identity: The Role of Place in Costa Rican Chorotega Identity -- Carib Identity, Racial Politics, and the Problem of Indigenous Recognition in Trinidad and Tobago -- Encountering Indigeneity: The International Funding of Indigeneity in Peru -- The Colour of Race: Indians and Progress in a Centre-Left Brazil -- Conclusion: Seeing beyond the State and Thinking beyond the State of Sight.
Summary This collection examines the changing roles of race and place in the politics of defining Indigenous identities in the Americas.
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Subject Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- America.
Ethnicity -- Political aspects.
America.
Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity.
Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity.
Indigenous peoples -- America -- Ethnic identity.
Indigenous peoples.
Ethnicity.
Politics and culture -- America.
Politics and culture.
America -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Forte, Maximilian C., 1967- editor.
Other Form: Print version: 9780802098184 0802098185
ISBN 1442667990 (electronic book)
9781442667990 (electronic book)
9780802098184 (bound)
0802098185 (bound)
9780802095527 (paperback)
0802095526 (paperback)