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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464019603321

Autore

Moreton-Robinson Aileen

Titolo

The white possessive : property, power, and Indigenous sovereignty / / Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4529-5076-8

0-8166-9214-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiv, 239 pages)

Collana

Indigenous Americas

Disciplina

333.30994

Soggetti

Aboriginal Australians - Ethnic identity

Aboriginal Australians - Land tenure

White people - Race identity - Australia

Property - Social aspects - Australia

Self-determination, National - Australia

Race awareness - Australia

National characteristics, Australian

Electronic books.

Australia Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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 preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and culturally constructed as a white possession. Moreton-Robinson reveals how the core values of Australian national identity continue to have their roots in Britishness and colonization, built on the disavowal of Indigenous sovereignty. Whiteness studies literature is central to Moreton-Robinson's reasoning, and she shows how blackness works as a white epistemological tool that bolsters the social production of whiteness--displacing Indigenous sovereignties and rendering them invisible in a civil rights discourse, thereby sidestepping thorny issues of settler colonialism.Throughout this critical examination Moreton-Robinson proposes a bold new agenda for critical Indigenous studies, one that involves deeper analysis of how the prerogatives of white possession function within the role of disciplines. "--