Natives against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France
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Natives against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France
By (Author) Olivia C. Harrison
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
11th July 2023
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Social discrimination and social justice
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
Politics and government
Colonialism and imperialism
305.800944
Physical Properties
Hardback
296
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 19mm
454g
Description
Examining the intersection of Palestine solidarity movements and antiracist activism in France from the 1970s to the present
For the pasty fifty years, the Palestinian question has served as a rallying cry in the struggle for migrant rights in postcolonial France, from the immigrant labor associations of the 1970s and Beur movements of the 1980s to the militant decolonial groups of the 2000s. In Natives against Nativism, Olivia C. Harrison explores the intersection of anticolonial solidarity and antiracist activism from the 1970s to the present.
Natives against Nativism analyzes a wide range of textsnovels, memoirs, plays, films, and militant archivesthat mobilize the twin figures of the Palestinian and the American Indian in a crossed critique of Eurocolonial modernity. Harrison argues that anticolonial solidarity with Palestinians and Indigenous Americans has been instrumental in developing a sophisticated critique of racism across imperial formationsin this case, France, the United States, and Israel.
Serving as the first relational study of antiracism in France, Natives against Nativism observes how claims to indigeneity have been deployed in multiple directions, both in the ongoing struggle for migrant rights and racial justice, and in white nativist claims in France today.
Reviews
"Olivia C. Harrison reads across a sweeping constellation of culture work, zooming in with a scalpel's precision on turns of phrase, camera angles, and audio soundtracks, and zooming out on thick transcolonial contexts and complex transindigenous identifications. An invaluable work for scholars of race, coloniality, and indigeneity!" Keith P. Feldman, author of A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America
Author Bio
Olivia Harrison is an associate professor in the Department of French and Italian and the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is author of Transcolonial Maghreb: Imagining Palestine in the Era of Decolonization and coeditor of Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics.
