The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty ceremony and between peace and violence

and between peace and violence

challenged white American perceptions of modernity

visiting with other First Nations peoples

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

and social media instead of the family stories

The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty ceremony and between peace and violenceThe 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. Moreton