Inventing the Savage : : The Social Construction of Native American Criminality /

Inventing the Savage : : The Social Construction of Native American Criminality / / Luana Ross.

Luana Ross writes, "Native Americans disappear into Euro-American institutions of confinement at alarming rates. People from my reservation appeared to simply vanish and magically return. [As a child] I did not realize what a 'real' prison was and did not give it any thought. I imagin...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Ross, Luana,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1998
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (326 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I Colonization and the Social Construction of Deviance
  • One WORLDS COLLIDE NEW WORLD, NEW INDIANS
  • Two RACIALIZING MONTANA THE CREATION OF "BAD INDIANS" CONTINUES
  • PART II Creating Dangerous Women NARRATIVES OF IMPRISONED NATIVE AMERICAN AND WHITE WOMEN
  • Three PRISONER PROFILE PAST AND PRESENT
  • Four LIVES DICTATED BY VIOLENCE
  • Five EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN IN PRISON "THEY KEEP ME AT A LEVEL WHERE THEY CAN CONTROL ME"
  • Six REHABILITATION OR CONTROL "WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO DO? DESTROY ME?"
  • Seven PRISON SUBCULTURE "IT'S ALL A GAME AND IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME"
  • Eight MOTHERHOOD IMPRISONED IMAGES AND CONCERNS OF IMPRISONED MOTHERS
  • Nine DOUBLE PUNISHMENT WEAK INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT FOR IMPRISONED MOTHERS
  • Ten REHABILITATION AND HEALING OF IMPRISONED MOTHERS
  • Eleven NARRATIVE OF A NATIVE WOMAN ON THE OUTSIDE GLORIA WELLS NORLIN (KA MIN DI TAT)
  • EPILOGUE
  • APPENDIX: VIOLATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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