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The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty
Aileen Moreton-Robinson
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The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and culturally constructed as a white possession.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Dedication
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CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION: White Possession and Indigenous Sovereignty Matters
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I. OWNING PROPERTY
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1 I Still Call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a Postcolonizing Society
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2 The House That Jack Built: Britishness and White Possession
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3 Bodies That Matter on the Beach
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4 Writing Off Treaties: Possession in the U.S. Critical Whiteness Literature
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II. BECOMING PROPERTYLESS
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5 Nullifying Native Title: A Possessive Investment in Whiteness
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6 The High Court and the Yorta Yorta Decision
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7 Leesa’s Story: White Possession in the Workplace
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8 The Legacy of Cook’s Choice
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III. BEING PROPERTY
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9 Toward a New Research Agenda: Foucault, Whiteness, and Sovereignty
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10 Writing Off Sovereignty: The Discourse of Security and Patriarchal White Sovereignty
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11 Imagining the Good Indigenous Citizen: Race War and the Pathology of White Sovereignty
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12 Virtuous Racial States: White Sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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AFTERWORD
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NOTES
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PUBLICATION HISTORY
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INDEX
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Published: 2015
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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