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Author Barker, Joanne, 1962- author.

Title Red Scare : the state's indigenous terrorist / Joanne Barker.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  970.004 BAR    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 176 pages; 21 cm.
Series American studies now : critical histories of the present ; 14
American studies now ; 14.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Prologue -- Scared red -- The murderable Indian : terror as state (in)security -- The kinless Indian : terror as social (in)stability -- Radical alterities from huckleberry roots -- Appendix I : a chronology -- Appendix II : Cherokee treaties and membership/census rolls.
Summary "New Indigenous movements are gaining traction in North America: the Missing and Murdered Women and Idle No More movements in Canada, and the Native Lives Matter and NoDAPL movements in the United States. These do not represent new demands for social justice and treaty rights, which Indigenous groups have sought for centuries. But owing to the extraordinary visibility of contemporary activism, Indigenous people have been newly cast as terrorists--a designation that justifies severe measures of policing, exploitation, and violence. The Red Scare investigates the intersectional scope of these four movements, and the broader context of the treatment of Indigenous social justice movements as threats to neoliberal and imperialist social orders. In The Red Scare, Joanne Barker shows how US and Canadian leaders leverage the fear-driven discourses of terrorism to allow for extreme responses to Indigenous activists, framing them as threats to social stability and national security. The alignment of Indigenous movements now with broader struggles against sexual, police, and environmental violence puts them at the forefront of new intersectional solidarities in prominent ways. The activist-as-terrorist framing is cropping up everywhere, but the historical and political complexities of Indigenous movements and state responses are unique. Indigenous criticisms of state policy, resource extraction and contamination, intense surveillance, and neoliberal values are met with outsized and shocking measures of militarized policing, environmental harm, and sexual violence. The Red Scare provides students and readers with a concise and thorough survey of these movements and their links to broader organizing; the common threads of historical violence against Indigenous people; and the relevant alternatives we can find in Indigenous forms of governance and relationality"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject North America. (OCoLC)fst01242475
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Social conditions.
Subject Social movements -- North America -- 21st century.
Social movements. (OCoLC)fst01122657
Indians of North America -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00969904
Social justice -- North America -- 21st century.
First Nations.
Social justice. (OCoLC)fst01122603
HISTORY / United States / General.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Subject Indians of North America -- Social conditions.
Other Form: Online version: Barker, Joanne, 1962- Red Scare Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] 9780520972674 (DLC) 2021016870
ISBN 9780520303171 hardcover
0520303172 hardcover
9780520303188 paperback
0520303180 paperback
9780520972674 electronic book
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