The White possessive : property, power, and indigenous sovereignty /
The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty and possession through themes of property, owning property, being property and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preo...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Indigenous Americas.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents Acknowledgments
- Introduction: White Possession and Indigenous Sovereignty Matters
- Part I. Owning Property
- 1. I Still Call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a Postcolonizing Society
- 2. The House That Jack Built: Britishness and White Possession
- 3. Bodies That Matter on the Beach
- 4. Writing Off Treaties: Possession in the U.S. Critical Whiteness Literature
- Part II. Becoming Propertyless
- 5. Nullifying Native Title: A Possessive Investment in Whiteness
- 6. The High Court and the Yorta Yorta Decision
- 7. Leesa's Story: White Possession in the Workplace
- 8. The Legacy of Cook's Choice
- Part III. Being Property
- 9. Toward a New Research Agenda: Foucault, Whiteness, and Sovereignty
- 10. Writing Off Sovereignty: The Discourse of Security and Patriarchal White Sovereignty
- 11. Imagining the Good Indigenous Citizen: Race War and the Pathology of White Sovereignty
- 12. Virtuous Racial States: White Sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Afterword
- Notes
- Publication History
- Index.