Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

WINNER OF:
Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book from the Caribbean Philosophical Association
Canadian Political Science Association’s C.B. MacPherson Prize
Studies in Political Economy Book Prize

Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization between the nation-state and Indigenous nations in North America. The term “recognition” shapes debates over Indigenous cultural distinctiveness, Indigenous rights to land and self-government, and Indigenous peoples’ right to benefit from the development of their lands and resources.


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