We are all caught up in one another, Scott Lauria Morgensen
asserts, we who live in settler societies, and our
interrelationships inform all that these societies touch. Native
people live in relation to all non-Natives amid the ongoing power
relations of settler colonialism, despite never losing inherent
claims to sovereignty as indigenous peoples. Explaining how
relational distinctions of "Native" and "settler" define the status
of being "queer," "Spaces between Us "argues that modern queer
subjects emerged among Natives and non-Natives by engaging the
meaningful difference indigeneity makes within a settler
society.
Morgensen's analysis exposes white settler colonialism as a
primary condition for the development of modern queer politics in
the United States. Bringing together historical and ethnographic
cases, he shows how U.S. queer projects became non-Native and
normatively white by comparatively examining the historical
activism and critical theory of Native queer and Two-Spirit
people.
Presenting a "biopolitics of settler colonialism"--in which the
imagined disappearance of indigeneity and sustained subjugation of
all racialized peoples ensures a progressive future for white
settlers--"Spaces between Us" newly demonstrates the
interdependence of nation, race, gender, and sexuality and offers
opportunities for resistance in the United States.
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