Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema, and the Colonization of American Indians
By (Author) Ward Churchill
City Lights Books
City Lights Books
2nd January 2001
United States
General
Non Fiction
Anthropology
Cultural studies
Colonialism and imperialism
National liberation and independence
Political control and freedoms
Media studies
306.0973
261
Width 152mm, Height 215mm, Spine 15mm
368g
This collection of essays by Native American academic Ward Churchill explore the reworking of fact into expedient fantasies, and the cultural propaganda that has served to support the continued colonization of Native America. From literature that propagated war on Indians, through campaigns to "civilise the savages", to the modern-day appropriation and stereotyping of native cultures in films such as "Dances with Wolves" and Castaneda's exotic novels of native wisdom, this text offers a wide-ranging counter to the dominant culture's history and literature of deception.
Ward Churchill has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues. He is a Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, a leading member of AIM, and the author of numerous books, including A Little Matter of Genocide, Struggle for the Land and Fantasies of the Master Race.