Notes from the Melting Pot: 463 Years after Cherokees Met DeSoto

Autor/in	Hausman, Blake M.
Titel	Notes from the Melting Pot: 463 Years after Cherokees Met DeSoto
Quelle	In: American Indian Quarterly, 27 (2003) 1-2, S.233-239 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-182X
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Multicultural Education; American Indians; Cultural Pluralism; Historians; Ethnography; Ethnic Diversity; North America; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Multikulturelle Erziehung; American Indian; Indianer; Kulturpluralismus; Historian; Historiker; Ethnografie; Nordamerika; USA
Abstract	In this essay, Hausman states that, for centuries, Indians were only important to academia if they were dead. From missionary ethnographers to cultural anthropologists, he claims, North America has been thoroughly raked by academics seeking an authentic representation of traditional life in this space. Yet many historians, who have shaped the future by shaping the past, have generally required their Native subjects to be dead, dying, or completely immobilized before they can be thoroughly identified, catalogued, and analyzed. When American Indians are incorporated into the multicultural stew that liberal academics tend to trumpet, parading through classrooms with an assumed mandate for "militant tolerance," the portrayal of their existence in North America continues to find ground somewhere other than North America. The United States' academia still generally thinks that Americans are from somewhere else, that things that are "from here" are inherently "from somewhere else" rather than "from here." In this article, the author discusses multiculturalism in American academia and how Americans perceive "diversity" as something created by migration that coexisted with the decimation of things Indigenous. (Contains 2 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10