Episode 17: Politics of Representation and Book Recommendations, Pt 2
March 1, 2019
House cleaning and introduction. The Cull of Personality is out now, discussion about the politics of representation and building narratives without owning other people. Lilia reads the first chapter, ‘A Shallow Grave.’ Wild Resistance no 6 will be here any day, information about the new issue. For Wildness and Anarchy expanded second edition updates. Getting back to work on Of Gods and Country. Greg Grandin’s The End of the Myth and the nature of the American identity. The frontier versus the border in terms of the colonial imagination. Eco-feminist book recommendations and the innate power of the medical industry. Mythologies of civilization’s progress. Anti-missionary book recommendations. Indigenous narrative book recommendations and the complexities of representation. Indigenous resistance versus revolutionary, from the view point of an Apache child during the Apache Wars.
Thank you to however compiled the book list here:
History - Expansionism:
Greg Grandin - The End of the Myth
Richard Drinnon - Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building
Manu Karuka - Empire's Tracks
Undermining the Medical Industry:
Carolyn Merchant - Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture
Barbara Ehrenreich - Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America
Johann Hari - Chasing the Scream: The Opposite of Addiction is Connection
Missionaries & Residential Schools:
Celia Haig-Brown - Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School
David Wallace Adams - Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928
Norman Lewis - The Missionaries: God against the Indians
David Stoll - Fishers of Men or Founders of Empire? : The Wycliffe Bible Translators in Latin America
Kevin Tucker - Of Gods and Country (in the works)
Soren Hvalkof - (ed) Is God an American?
Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett - Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon : Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil
George E. Tinker - Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide
Ward Churchill - Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools
Native America:
Ward Churchill - Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema, and the Colonization of American Indians, Struggle for the Land
Vine Deloria Jr. - Red Earth, White Lies, God is Red: A Native View of Religion, Custer Died for Your Sins
Thomas King - The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative
Sarah Deer - The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America
Eve Ball and James Kaywaykla - In the Days of Victorio; Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache