Dancing at Halftime - Spindel, Carol
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A Poignant Exploration Of An Explosive Subject Sports fans love to don paint and feathers to cheer on teams with names like the Washington Redskins, but outside the stadiums American Indians aren't cheering--they're yelling "racism." While American Indian Movement protestors burn effigies, Carol Spindel listens to both activists and the fans who resent their attacks. Inside hearing rooms and high schools, she questions linguists, lawyers, and university alumni. This book reminds us that in America, Indians are often our symbolic servants expressing our longings to become "native" Americans in order to feel at home in our own land.…mehr

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A Poignant Exploration Of An Explosive Subject Sports fans love to don paint and feathers to cheer on teams with names like the Washington Redskins, but outside the stadiums American Indians aren't cheering--they're yelling "racism." While American Indian Movement protestors burn effigies, Carol Spindel listens to both activists and the fans who resent their attacks. Inside hearing rooms and high schools, she questions linguists, lawyers, and university alumni. This book reminds us that in America, Indians are often our symbolic servants expressing our longings to become "native" Americans in order to feel at home in our own land.
Autorenporträt
Carol Spindel, author of In the Shadow of the Sacred Grove, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year (1989), teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Illinois, Urbana.