From a Native Son: Selected Essays in Indigenism, 1985-1995

Ward Churchill

South End Press, 1996 - Social Science - 588 pages

This disturbing and compelling work contains illuminating insights and provides a much-needed antidote to pervasive ignorance on Native American issues. In its scope and courage, From a Native Son never fails to startle with the impact of quiet truths passionately felt and powerfully expressed.

Contents

• A Survey of Native North America: 21
• Struggles for American Indian: 37
• The NavajoHopi Land Dispute: 107
• The Political Economy: 147
• The Making of an American Indian: 191
• Confessions of: 231
• The Intellectual Imperialism of U S Higher: 271
• LITERATURE AND THE COLONIZATION OF AMERICAN: 295
• Colonialism and: 315
• Jerry Manders In the Absence: 337
• The Rise of the Plastic Medicine: 355
• Categories: 409
• An Indigenist: 423
• The Issue of Sports: 439
• Applying: 445
• A Barrier: 455
• An Indigenist Perspective on Marxist Theory: 461
• Jimmie Durham an Artist for Native: 483
• Simon J Ortizs From Sand: 501
• Notes on the Ideology of the Fourth World: 509
• WORKS BY AUTHOR 19801996: 547
• INDEX: 559

About the author

A committed radical historian and activist, Howard Zinn approaches the study of the past from the point of view of those whom he feels have been exploited by the powerful. Zinn was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1922. After working in local shipyards during his teens, he joined the U.S. Army Air Force, where he saw combat as a bombardier in World War II. He received a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 1958 and was a postdoctoral fellow in East Asian studies at Harvard University. While teaching at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, Zinn joined the civil rights movement and wrote The Southern Mystique (1964) and SNCC: The New Abolitionists (1964). He also became an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, writing Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal (1967) and visiting Hanoi to receive the first American prisoners released by the North Vietnamese. Zinn's best-known and most-praised work, as well as his most controversial, is A People's History of the United States (1980). It explores American history under the thesis that most historians have favored those in power, leaving another story untold. Zinn discusses such topics as Native American views of Columbus and the socialist and anarchist opposition to World War I in examining his theory that historical change is most often due to "mass movements of ordinary people." Zinn's other books include You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times (1995) and Artists in Times of War (2004). He has also written the plays Emma (1976), Daughter of Venus (1985), and Marx in Soho (1999).

Bibliographic information

• Title: From a Native Son: Selected Essays in Indigenism, 1985-1995; Mit Press Digital Communications; Native American Studies
• Author: Ward Churchill
• Contributor: Howard Zinn
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: South End Press, 1996
• ISBN: 0896085538, 9780896085534
• Length: 588 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness