This course brings
together transnational and interdisciplinary scholarship to articulate new ways
of pursuing critical Indigenous studies through a hemispheric frame. In light
of the shared history of colonization, genocide, racial and sexual violence
experienced by indigenous peoples, the goal for this course is to engage with
the ways that indigenous and mestiza/o (mixed race) peoples enact resistance to
state, nation-state, and imperial attempts to erase, deny, repress, disappear,
circumscribe displace, and assimilate indigenous peoples. To do so, this course
examines key concepts and methodologies, including their intellectual
genealogies, used to engage with indigenous experiences across the Américas.
Finally, this course attempts to promote a broader understanding of the
relationships between Native and decolonizing mestiza/o (mixed race) peoples in the hemisphere. We will analyze an assortment of texts, including books,
articles, and visual media, that speak to the multiple ways that indigeneity is
lived, practiced, and imagined.
