Title
Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine
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Department
English & Comparative Literature Department
Description
Inter/Nationalism examines mutual forms of decolonization in North America and Palestine. Salaita analyzes the many ways that the issue of Palestine has become important to the fields of American Indian and Indigenous Studies while arguing that American Indian and Indigenous Studies should be more central to scholarship and activism focused on Palestine. The book emphasizes the importance of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, or BDS, movement against Israel to the creation of intellectual and political communities that put Natives and Palestinians into conversation. Offering an inside account of how BDS operates, the book illustrates its terrific potential as an organizing community. Salaita also critiques a wide range of Native poetry that invokes Palestine as a theme or symbol; the speeches of US president Andrew Jackson, who oversaw the Trail of Tears, and early Zionist thinker Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky; and the discourses of “shared values” between the United States and Israel. The book is written for both academics and activists, with the goal of eroding the traditional boundaries between the two communities.
ISBN
9781452953182
Publication Date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
City
Minnesota
Keywords
American Indian Studies, Indigenous Studies, Palestine, BDS, American Studies, Zionism, Colonization, Settler Colonization
Series
Indigenous Americas
Disciplines
Political Science | Sociology
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APA Citation
Salaita, S.
(2016).Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine. University of Minnesota Press.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/222
MLA Citation
Salaita, Steven
Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine. University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/222
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https://doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9781517901417.001.0001