Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

by Glen Sean Coulthard
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

by Glen Sean Coulthard

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Overview

WINNER OF:

  • Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book from the Caribbean Philosophical Association
  • Canadian Political Science Association’s C.B. MacPherson Prize
  • Studies in Political Economy Book Prize


Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization between the nation-state and Indigenous nations in North America. The term “recognition” shapes debates over Indigenous cultural distinctiveness, Indigenous rights to land and self-government, and Indigenous peoples’ right to benefit from the development of their lands and resources.

In a work of critically engaged political theory, Glen Sean Coulthard challenges recognition as a method of organizing difference and identity in liberal politics, questioning the assumption that contemporary difference and past histories of destructive colonialism between the state and Indigenous peoples can be reconciled through a process of acknowledgment. Beyond this, Coulthard examines an alternative politics—one that seeks to revalue, reconstruct, and redeploy Indigenous cultural practices based on self-recognition rather than on seeking appreciation from the very agents of colonialism.

Coulthard demonstrates how a “place-based” modification of Karl Marx’s theory of “primitive accumulation” throws light on Indigenous-state relations in settler-colonial contexts and how Frantz Fanon’s critique of colonial recognition shows that this relationship reproduces itself over time. This framework strengthens his exploration of the ways that the politics of recognition has come to serve the interests of settler-colonial power.

In addressing the core tenets of Indigenous resistance movements, like Red Power and Idle No More, Coulthard offers fresh insights into the politics of active decolonization.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780816679652
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 09/07/2014
Series: Indigenous Americas
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 430,150
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Glen Sean Coulthard (Yellowknives Dene) is assistant professor in the First Nations Studies Program and the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.

Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Subjects of Empire

1. The Politics of Recognition in Colonial Contexts
2. For the Land: The Dene Nation’s Struggle for Self-Determination
3. Essentialism and the Gendered Politics of Aboriginal Self-Government
4. Seeing Red: Reconciliation and Resentment
5. The Plunge into the Chasm of the Past: Fanon, Self-Recognition, and Decolonization

Conclusion. Lessons from Idle No More: The Future of Indigenous Activism

Notes
Index

 
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