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Guerilla ethnography.
Using contemporary paradigms from Native American, African American, feminist, and post-colonial critical theories, as well the debates around what constitutes anthropology, this dissertation examines the ways in which Native American written literary production and European American ethnography converge in the social production and construction of the "raced" categories of "red" and "white." The questions of how discourses of power and subjectivity operate are asked of texts by Paula Gunn Allen, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Elsie Clews Parsons, all of whom have lived and worked in and around Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico. The matrix in their texts of location (Laguna Pueblo), discourses (fiction and ethnography), "races" (Laguna and White), and gender (female), facilitates an examination of the scripting of "Indian-ness" and "White-ness" and how these categories sustain each other, and how each "contains" and "represents" the other, based in relative domination and subordination. What is posited here is a practice of guerilla ethnography, a practice which reflects "white" back upon itself, creating a picture of what it means to be culturally "white" by one who is "other than white." Texts are examined in terms of a racial and ethnic "whiteness" as a socially constructed category, upsetting the underlying assumption of whiteness as the given or natural center, rather than as another socially constructed category
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Muscogee Daughter: My Sojourn to the Miss America Pageant. By Susan Supernaw.
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Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays: A Tribal Voice. By Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
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With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People’s History. By Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun and Josephine Waggoner.
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Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community. Edited by Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe.
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