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Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine (Indigenous Americas) - Softcover

Salaita, Steven

 
9781517901424: Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine (Indigenous Americas)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1517901421 ISBN 13: 9781517901424
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2016

Synopsis

“The age of transnational humanities has arrived.” According to Steven Salaita, the seemingly disparate fields of Palestinian Studses and American Indian studies have more in common than one may think. In Inter/Nationalism, Salaita argues that American Indian and Indigenous studies must be more central to the scholarship and activism focusing on Palestine. 

Salaita offers a fascinating inside account of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement—which, among other things, aims to end Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land. In doing so, he emphasizes BDS’s significant potential as an organizing entity as well as its importance in the creation of intellectual and political communities that put Natives and other colonized peoples such as Palestinians into conversation. His discussion includes readings of a wide range of Native poetry that invokes Palestine as a theme or symbol; the speeches of U.S. President Andrew Jackson and early Zionist thinker Ze’ev Jabotinsky; and the discourses of “shared values” between the United States and Israel. 

Inter/Nationalism seeks to lay conceptual ground between American Indian and Indigenous studies and Palestinian studies through concepts of settler colonialism, indigeneity, and state violence. By establishing Palestine as an indigenous nation under colonial occupation, this book draws crucial connections between the scholarship and activism of Indigenous America and Palestine.

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About the Author

Steven Salaita is the author of several books, including Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom and Israel’s Dead Soul.

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Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1517901421
ISBN 13 
9781517901424
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
3
Number of pages
208