Suchergebnisse

A sorority and fraternity at the University of Denver recently held a "Cowboys and Indians" theme party. Reflecting from this event, I examine how it has shaped my students' attitudes toward dominant constructions of Native Americans through writing responses and class discussions to Ward Churchill's (2010) "Crimes Against Humanity," which questions and challenges U.S. sports teams' and media's use of Native American names and symbols. I critique my students' writings and class discussions, and incorporate pedagogical practices to interrupt problematic Native American identity constructions as moments of pedagogical intervention.

Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; I: Identity, Pedagogy, and Praxis; Chapter One: Performative Pedagogy as a Pedagogy of Interruption; Chapter Two: Doing Intersectionality; Chapter Three: Understanding Identity Through Dialogue; Chapter Four: (Academic) Families of Choice; II: Identity and Home/Spaces; Chapter Five: Cultural Reentry; Chapter Six: Performing Home/Storying Selves; III: Identity and the Global-Local Dialectic; Chapter Seven: Landscaping the Rootless; Chapter Eight: Cultural Matter as Political Matter.