Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of the American Indians

Nagel, Joane; Churchill, Ward; Jaimes, M. Annette

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“…The potential benefits of including underrepresented characters with supernatural abilities applies equally to Native American portrayals: Native American religious and spiritual beliefs have certainly been exploited in literature and film. In particular, Churchill points out negative aspects of the co‐opting of Native American beliefs by outsiders and fakes—“plastic medicine men”—who are “trading in the commercialization of indigenous spirituality” (Churchill, 1992, p. 220), and Stephen Graham Jones confesses that although he “might want being Indian to be a superpower, a special ability, … it doesn't make you automatically in tune with nature” (Jones). However, there are also legitimate reasons for presenting Native American spirituality to a broader readership.…”

Section: Moving Beyond Stereotypesmentioning

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Moving beyond the magic Indian Trope in Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series

Schaffer

2024

The J of Popular Culture

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In films, the Magic Negro is a stock character whose supernatural gifts promote the success of a White protagonist. A character with parallel traits found in a number of mystery series is the Magic Indian, who has supernatural connections and abilities unavailable to others. In his Walt Longmire mysteries, Craig Johnson develops a strong supernatural thread with the agency of Native American characters who can be considered Magic Indians. While Johnson's Magic Indians share similarities with Magic Negroes, they exhibit key differences in the way their spirituality is presented that make them more realistic characters serving an educational function.

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Section: Moving Beyond Stereotypesmentioning

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Moving beyond the magic Indian Trope in Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series

Schaffer

2024

The J of Popular Culture

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“…A notable case is that of Native Americans, who customarily have been removed from their cultural and historical rootedness through images that eternalize them as either noble heroes or uncivilized savages, and typically as a combination of both. 14 On the other hand, the history of oppression, dehumanization, resistance, and struggle of the many Indigenous Nations rarely is studied in schools. If there is any doubt about the image of Native Americans held by most non-Indian children in the United States, ask even six-year-olds and they will provide in precise detail the most stereotypical and ahistorical portrait of Indians, as Erickson noted, "outside time."…”

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Culture and Education

Nieto

2008

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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By this point in the volume, the need for dialogue in public spaces may seem obvious. But having this conversation occur in shared, respectful, and productive ways is not easy in diverse, pluralistic settings. It may be even more difficult in those settings where differences in race, gender, sexual orientation, and language are awarded pride of place or position. In this chapter Sonia Nieto advances the conversation about the educational implications of some of the ideas we grappled with in Part Two: if democracy involves people creating common and uncommon worlds in order to define themselves and live together, what are some of the horizons of significance available for this kind of education? Nieto captures the challenge as how to live together and thrive amidst what seems inevitable interracial misunderstanding and conflict explained by differences in ethnicity, color, language-often referred to as cultural differences.Nieto reminds us that culture is not a given, but a human creation, dependent on particular geographical, temporal, and sociopolitical contexts and therefore vulnerable to issues of power and control. She unpacks some of the features that follow from this understanding-culture as dynamic, multifaceted, embedded in context, influenced by social, economic, and political factors, socially constructed, learned, and dialectical-often drawing on her personal experience to illustrate her points.

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Breaching the Colonial Contract

2009

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In today's dominant modes of pedagogy, questions about issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, colonialism, religion, and other social dynamics are rarely asked. Questions about the social spaces where pedagogy takes place -in schools, media, and corporate think tanks -are not raised. And they need to be.The Explorations of Educational Purpose book series can help establish a renewed interest in such questions and their centrality in the larger study of education and the preparation of teachers and other educational professionals. The editors of this series feel that education matters and that the world is in need of a rethinking of education and educational purpose.Coming from a critical pedagogical orientation, Explorations of Educational Purpose aims to have the study of education transcend the trivialization that often degrades it. Rather than be content with the frivolous, scholarly lax forms of teacher education and weak teaching prevailing in the world today, we should work towards education that truly takes the unattained potential of human beings as its starting point. The series will present studies of all dimensions of education and offer alternatives. The ultimate aim of the series is to create new possibilities for people around the world who suffer under the current design of socio-political and educational institutions.For other titles published in this series, go to

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Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of the American Indians

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Moving beyond the magic Indian Trope in Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series

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