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As class sizes grow and more students enter higher education, the number of tenure-track faculty positions is shrinking, and institutions are finding themselves increasingly dependent on part-time or limited-term appointments with comparatively few benefits or protections. [...] as the recent passag...

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Published inStudies in American Indian Literatures Vol. 22; no. 4; p. VII
Main Authors Justice, Daniel Heath, Cox, James H
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 01.12.2010
Subjects
Activism
Activists
Alexie, Sherman (1966- )
Area Studies
Class Size
Educational Quality
Essays
Ethics
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Immigrants
Interpersonal relations
Legislation
Mexican Americans
National identity
Nationalism
Native studies
Noncitizens
Politics
Scholars
Studies
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Summary:As class sizes grow and more students enter higher education, the number of tenure-track faculty positions is shrinking, and institutions are finding themselves increasingly dependent on part-time or limited-term appointments with comparatively few benefits or protections. [...] as the recent passage of anti-immigrant and anti-ethnic studies legislation in Arizona and other states has demonstrated, those fields of inquiry that are deemed threatening to a particularly narrow view of national identity or that offer thoughtful challenge to jingoist exceptionalism are particularly favored targets. In the opening essay, Mark Rifkin explores the "multivectored struggle over the contours of US- Indian affairs" in Mohican sachem Hendrick Aupaumut's "A Short Narration of My Last Journey to the Western Country," giving particular attention to the political function of Indigenous kinship values in Aupaumut's response to US intrusions and diplomatic presumptions.
ISSN:0730-3238
1548-9590