Contesting Constructed Indian-ness: The Intersection of the Frontier, Masculinity, and Whiteness in Native American Mascot Representations

by Michael Taylor

Book Overview

Native American sports team mascots represent a contemporary problem for modern Native American people. The ideas embedded in the mascot representations, however, are as old as the ideas constructed about the Indian since contact between the peoples of Western and the Eastern hemispheres. Such ideas conceived about Native Americans go hand-in-hand with the machinations of colonialism and conquest of these people. This research looks at how such ideas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739178644
• ISBN13: 9780739178645
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"