David S Koffman

The Jews' Indian

Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Jews’ Indian investigates the history of American Jewish relationships with Native Americans, both in the realm of cultural imagination and in face-to-face encounters. This book is the first history to analyze Jewish participation in, and Jews’ grappling with the legacies of Native American history and the colonial project upon which America rests. 

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781978800878
• ISBN-10: 1978800878
• Artikelnr.: 52530221

Autorenporträt

DAVID S. KOFFMAN is an assistant professor of history at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is also the editor-in-chief of the journal Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
 
Introduction: Exile and Aboriginality, Kinship and Distance
 
1 Inventing Pioneer Jews in the New Nation's New West
 
2 Land and the Violent Expansion of the Immigrants' Empire
 
3 Jewish Middlemen Merchants, Indian Curios, and the Extensions of American
Capitalism
 
4 Jewish Rhetorical Uses of Indians in an Era of Nativist Anxieties 
 
5 Jewish Advocacy for Native Americans On and Off Capitol Hill
 
6  Anthropological Ventriloquism and Dovetailing Intellectual and Political
Advancements
 
Conclusion:
Paths of Persecution, Stakes of Colonial Modernity
 
Acknowledgments
 
Notes
 
Index