Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781512601466)

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.

Author: Yael Ben-Zvi
ISBN-10: 1512601462
ISBN-13: 9781512601466
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Language: English
Published: 01/02/2018
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70d