Native American sports team mascots represent a contemporary problem
for modern Native American people. The ideas embedded in the mascot
representations, however, are as old as the ideas constructed about
the Indian since contact between the peoples of Western and the
Eastern hemispheres. Such ideas conceived about Native Americans go
hand-in-hand with the machinations of colonialism and conquest of
these people. This research looks at how such ideas inform the
construction of identity of white males from historic experiences with
Native Americans. Notions of “playing Indian” and of “going
Native” are precipitated from these historic contexts such that in
the contemporary sense of considering Native Americans, popular
culture ideas dress Native Americans in feathers and buckskin in order
to satisfy stereotypic expectations of Indian-ness.
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ISBN
9780739178652
Publisert
2015
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Lexington Books
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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