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The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty
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The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty Hardcover - 2015

by Aileen Moreton-Robinson


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  • Title The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty
  • Author Aileen Moreton-Robinson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Minnesota Press
  • Date 2015
  • ISBN 9780816692149 / 0816692149
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.5 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 3.81 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Aboriginal Australians - Land tenure, Australia - Race relations
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014028050
  • Dewey Decimal Code 333.3

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Aileen Moreton-Robinson is professor of Indigenous studies at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and is director of the National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network. She is author of Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism and editor of several books, including Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters.

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Hardback. New. 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… Read More
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The White Possessive Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty

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