The Politics of Kinship: Race, Family, Governance

by Mark Rifkin

What if we understood the idea of family as central to representing alternative forms of governance as expressions of racial deviance? In The Politics of Kinship, Mark Rifkin shows how ideologies of family, including notions of kinship, recast Indigenous and other forms of collective self-organization and self-determination as disruptive racial tendencies in need of state containment and intervention. Centering work in Indigenous studies, Rifkin...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478021047
• ISBN13: 9781478021049
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"