Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide -- Andrea Smith

In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence-perpetrated by the state and by society at large-and documents their impact on Native women. 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-the most likely to suffer from poverty-related illness and to survive rape and partner abuse. Smith also outlines radical and innovative strategies for eliminating gendered violence.<br><br><br><b>Author:</b> Andrea Smith<br><b>Publisher:</b> Duke University Press<br><b>Published:</b> 04/24/2015<br><b>Pages:</b> 264<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.70lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780822360384<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Andrea Smith is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of <i>Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances</i> and coeditor of <i>Theorizing Native