Histories of rights have too often marginalized Native Americans and African Americans. Addressing this lacuna, Native Land Talk expands our understanding of freedom by examining rights theories that Indigenous and African-descended peoples articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As settlers began to distrust the entitlements that the English used to justify their rule, the colonized and the enslaved formulated coherent logics of freedom and belonging. By anchoring rights in nativity, they countered settlers' attempts to dispossess and disenfranchise them. Drawing on a plethora of texts, including petitions, letters, newspapers, and official records, Yael Ben-zvi analyzes nativity's unsettling potentials and its discursive and geopolitical implications. She shows how rights were constructed in relation to American, African, and English spaces, and explains the obstacles to historic solidarity between Native American and African American struggles.
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Yael Ben-zvi Imprint: Dartmouth College Press Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 412g ISBN:9781512601466 ISBN 10: 1512601462 Series:Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies Pages: 296 Publication Date:02 January 2018 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
YAEL BEN-ZVI teaches American studies in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.