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Conquest
Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
Andrea Smith
Pages: 282ISBN: 0-89608-743-3
Format: paper
Release Date: 2005-05-24
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2005 Gustavus Myers Book Award Winner
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A cutting-edge scholar and cofounder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence,
the largest grassroots, multiracial feminist organization in the country, Andrea
Smith (Cherokee) is an emerging leader in progressive political circles. In
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, Smith places
Native American women at the center of her analysis of sexual violence, challenging
both conventional definitions of the term and conventional responses to the
problem.
Beginning with the impact of the abuses inflicted on Native American children at state-sanctioned boarding schools from the 1880s to the 1980s, Smith adroitly expands our conception of violence to include the widespread appropriation of Indian cultural practices by whites and other non-Natives; environmental racism; and population control. Smith deftly connects these and other examples of historical and contemporary colonialism to the high rates of violence against Native American women-as a group, the poorest women in the US, and the most likely to suffer from poverty-related illnesses and to survive rape and partner abuse.
Essential reading for scholars and activists, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide is the powerful synthesis of Andrea Smith's intellectual and political work to date. By focusing on the impact of sexual violence on Native American women, Smith articulates an agenda that is compelling to feminists, Native Americans, other people of color, and all who are committed to creating viable alternatives to state-based "solutions."
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Breaking News
December 8, 2005
Human Rights Book Awards
South End Press titles Conquest and Undivided Rights among the winners
Atlanta, GA: In observance of United Nations Human Rights Day world-wide, ten books and their authors received prestigious Myers Outstanding Book Awards 2005 at The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History (AARL), a Special Library of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, in Atlanta, GA. The Greater Atlanta human rights community joined AARL and the Gustavus Myers Center, a national organization, in honoring the awardees and co-sponsoring the lively dialogue.
"In the struggle for justice is the hope," said Loretta J. Williams, Myers Center director, in announcing the winners:
- Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross, Elena R. Gutierrez, Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, South End Press 2004 The authors tell how progressive women of color have long been active countering oppressive conditions, and lucidly demonstrate the spiritual and organic nature of reproductive justice.
- Andrea Smith, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian ...
Andrea Smith
Click here to view Andrea Smith's full Author PageAndrea Smith (Cherokee) is a longtime anti-violence and Native American activist and scholar. She is co-founder of the Boarding School Healing Project and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, a national grassroots organization that utilizes direct action and critical dialogue. Smith has published widely on issues of violence against women of color and is one of the nation's leading experts on the topic, as well as a highly-sought after speaker.
Smith currently teaches in media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. In addition to Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, Smith authored Native Americans and The Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances and helped edit INCITE!’s two anthologies, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex and Color Of Violence. She has also contributed to South End Press's two forthcoming anthologies, The Revolution Starts at Home, and Sovereign Acts.