Colonialism has failed at the only thing it set out to do, eliminate the Native. The history of colonialism is as much a story of its own failure as it is a story of colonial violence and Native dispossession. Few histories of colonialism, however, explain the story of colonialism's failure. An Enemy Such as This offers a new history of colonialism by tracing the history of colonialism through the story of the Casuse family, a Navajo family whose members lived and died in a world remade by colonial... Celý popis
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Colonialism has failed at the only thing it set out to do, eliminate the Native. The history of colonialism is as much a story of its own failure as it is a story of colonial violence and Native dispossession. Few histories of colonialism, however, explain the story of colonialism's failure. An Enemy Such as This offers a new history of colonialism by tracing the history of colonialism through the story of the Casuse family, a Navajo family whose members lived and died in a world remade by colonial conquest and Native resistance to that conquest. The remarkable stories of Larry Casuse and his parents Lillian Hutzler and Louis Casuse offer a clear view of the world-making power of colonial violence; the ongoing, everyday, world-destroying nature of settler colonialism in the lives of Native people; and the committed, principled stand that so many, including Larry
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Rok vydání | 2022 |
Autor | Correia, David |
Počet stran | 200 |
Výrobce | Haymarket Books |
Jazyk | anglické |