Overview
- Examines the resurgence of anti-Native Americanism since the start of Donald Trump’s bid for the US Presidency
- Places this resurgent anti-Native Americanism into an appropriate contemporary context of the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline and the controversies surrounding Elizabeth Warren’s identity
- Demonstrates how historical forces have created the foundation upon which many of these controversies are built
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This book examines the resurgence of anti-Native Americanism since the start of Donald Trump’s bid for the US Presidency. From the time Trump announced his intention to run for president, racism directed towards Native Americans has become an increasingly visible part of cultural and political life in the United States. From the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline to the controversies surrounding Elizabeth Warren’s identity, to open mockery by teenagers wearing MAGA hats, anti-Native Americanism is now at its most visible in the United States since the early twentieth century. This volume places this resurgent anti-Native Americanism into an appropriate contemporary context by demonstrating how historical forces have created the foundation upon which many of these controversies are built. Chapters examine three key processes in US history and how they have shaped today’s political climate: violence as a force of attitudinal change; the root issues at the heart of Native American identity politics; and the dismissal of modern Native American inequalities through a prolonged European American fascination with the imagery of the noble savage.
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
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Darren Reid is Assistant Professor of History at Coventry University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Native American Racism in the Age of Donald Trump
Book Subtitle: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Authors: Darren R. Reid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58718-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58717-8Published: 30 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58718-5Published: 29 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 147
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: US History, US Politics, Sociology of Racism