"Maybe You Only Look White": Ethnic Authority and Indian Authenticity in Academia

Autor/in	Gercken-Hawkins, Becca
Titel	"Maybe You Only Look White": Ethnic Authority and Indian Authenticity in Academia
Quelle	In: American Indian Quarterly, 27 (2003) 1-2, S.200-202 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-182X
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; African Americans; American Indian Literature; African American Literature; American Indians; Student Organizations; Liberal Arts; United States Literature; College Faculty; American Indian Education; Ethnicity; Racial Bias; Teaching Experience + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Afroamerikaner; American Indian; Indianer; Student organisations; Schülerorganisation; Studentenorganisation; Studentenvereinigung; Studentenvertretung; Fakultät; Ethnizität; Racial discrimination; Rassismus
Abstract	In this article, the author shares her experience teaching Native American and African American literature at a top public liberal arts college. Working with a large Native American student population and growing up in Montana, the author had both seen and experienced the racism Native Americans face in their culture. As a new faculty member, the author quickly learned from colleagues and from her involvement in the Native student organization that more consequential identity conflicts were common on the campus and in the town in which the university was located, especially since many of the students, like the author, do not "look Indian." The author describes her encounters with the people which highlighted a conflict that, for the author, is always right below the surface as a professor: the author enjoys the often unquestioned authority her Indian identity gives her as a teacher of Native American literature, yet she is troubled by the knowledge that her graduate school training in American ethnic literatures, the education that enables and qualifies her--to do her job well, is, for many, a secondary consideration. (Contains 11 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10