Research Catalog

Title

The White possessive : property, power, and indigenous sovereignty / Aileen Moreton-Robinson.

Author

Moreton-Robinson, Aileen

Publication

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]

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Details

Description

xxiv, 239 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and culturally constructed as a white possession. Moreton-Robinson reveals how the core values of Australian national identity continue to have their roots in Britishness and colonization, built on the disavowal of Indigenous sovereignty. Whiteness studies literature is central to Moreton-Robinson's reasoning, and she shows how blackness works as a white epistemological tool that bolsters the social production of whiteness--displacing Indigenous sovereignties and rendering them invisible in a civil rights discourse, thereby sidestepping thorny issues of settler colonialism.Throughout this critical examination Moreton-Robinson proposes a bold new agenda for critical Indigenous studies, one that involves deeper analysis of how the prerogatives of white possession function within the role of disciplines. "--

Series Statement

Indigenous Americas

Uniform Title

Indigenous Americas.

Subject

• Aboriginal Australians > Ethnic identity
• Aboriginal Australians > Land tenure
• White people > Race identity > Australia
• Property > Social aspects > Australia
• Self-determination, National > Australia
• Race awareness > Australia
• National characteristics, Australian
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
• Property > Social aspects
• Race awareness
• Race relations
• Self-determination, National
• Whites > Race identity
• Australia > Race relations
• Australia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : White Possession and Indigenous Sovereignty Matters -- Part I. Owning Property -- 1. I Still Call Australia Home : Indigenous Belonging and Place in a Postcolonizing Society -- 2. The House That Jack Built : Britishness and White Possession -- 3. Bodies That Matter on the Beach -- 4. Writing Off Treaties : Possession in the U.S. Critical Whiteness Literature -- Part II. Becoming Propertyless -- 5. Nullifying Native Title : A Possessive Investment in Whiteness -- 6. The High Court and the Yorta Yorta Decision -- 7. Leesa's Story : White Possession in the Workplace -- 8. The Legacy of Cook's Choice -- Part III. Being Property -- 9. Toward a New Research Agenda : Foucault, Whiteness, and Sovereignty -- 10. Writing Off Sovereignty : The Discourse of Security and Patriarchal White Sovereignty -- 11. Imagining the Good Indigenous Citizen : Race War and the Pathology of White Sovereignty -- 12. Virtuous Racial States : White Sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- Afterword -- Notes -- Publication History -- Index.

Call Number

JFD 15-2747

ISBN

• 9780816692149
• 0816692149
• 9780816692163
• 0816692165

LCCN

2014028050

OCLC

894746314

Author

Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, author.

Title

The White possessive : property, power, and indigenous sovereignty / Aileen Moreton-Robinson.

Publisher

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Indigenous Americas

Indigenous Americas.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 15-2747