Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for Self-Representation

by Arturo J. Aldama

Book Overview

Colonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalize, pathologize, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas/os as well. While postcolonial studies of the past few decades have focused on how these ethnicities have been constructed by others, Disrupting Savagism reveals how each group, in turn, has actively attempted to create for itself a social and textual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822327481
• ISBN13: 9780822327486
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 11.3"