{"product_id":"indian-enough-paul-chaat-smith-9781517922757","title":"Indian Enough: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn acerbic, candid reckoning with Indigenous identity, visibility, and the messy realities of cultural change\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eIndian Enough, \u003c\/i\u003ecurator and critic Paul Chaat Smith probes the paradox of contemporary Indigeneity: enormous, hard-won cultural visibility in museum exhibits, land acknowledgments, mascot removals, and more alongside persistent erasure in everyday life. Rejecting the easy comforts of identity politics (he was, he admits, a fan of the Land O'Lakes Butter Maiden), Smith brings \"honest confusion\" to his inquiry, using sharp wit and wry humor to confront the gap between symbolism and lived reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth memoir and cultural critique, \u003ci\u003eIndian Enough\u003c\/i\u003e follows Smith from a suburban childhood in Washington, D.C., filled with Kurt Vonnegut and Vine Deloria Jr., through teenage years steeped in Native politics leading to a thrilling and eventually disillusioning stint with the American Indian Movement, to his pivotal role in creating the inaugural exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian. His insider account of NMAI exposes how well-meaning efforts to redress Native erasure can simply swap one set of stereotypes for another, and his candor shows how institutions and activists--himself included--all grapple with the tension between good intentions and political realities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrreverent and searching, \u003ci\u003eIndian Enough\u003c\/i\u003e tackles culture writ large--the rise of punk and the fall of AIM, pop culture as a battleground, Indigenous slaveowners and other histories we'd rather forget, MAGA Indians, and what it means to win when the ground keeps shifting. Together these essays reveal a truth that's hard to reconcile in an era of \"progress\" representation is everywhere, certainty is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Chaat Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517922755\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517922757\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs","brand":"Paul Chaat Smith","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49001703473407,"sku":"9781517922757","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/indian-enough-paul-chaat-smith-9781517922757","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}