Unfair Labor?
American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
David R. M. Beck
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 07/2019
Pages: 330
Subject: Social Science
eBook ISBN: 9781496214843
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David R. M. Beck is a professor of Native American studies at the University of Montana. He is the author of several books, including The Struggle for Self Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854 (Nebraska, 2005) and is the coauthor with Rosalyn LaPier of City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893–1934 (Nebraska, 2015).
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"Unfair Labor? offers a significant new exploration of American Indian people in primitivist performance, seen through the physical toil of collection, commodity production, travel, and wage labor. In this well-researched volume, Dave Beck makes a critical contribution to the emergent literature on Native labor, globalization, and the new histories of capitalism, while always centering indigenous people's efforts to survive, adapt, and thrive."—Philip J. Deloria, professor of history at Harvard University and author of Indians in Unexpected Places
"David Beck's rigorously researched and engagingly written book is a long-awaited examination of Native American participation in the 1893 World's Fair. . . . Unfair Labor?—a fascinating and deeply illuminating analysis of Indigenous labor at the World's Fair—makes a superb contribution to our understanding of Native life in the late nineteenth century."—Amy Lonetree (Ho-Chunk), author of Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums
"Historian David Beck has written a unique book about the nature of work performed by Native Americans in domestic colonial situations during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He documents how Native American individuals and families were active players in special events—such as fairs, Wild West shows, and world's fairs—that theoretically celebrated American history and culture. These men and women did more than simply play a passive marginalized other."—Nancy Parezo, professor emeritus of American Indian studies and anthropology at the University of Arizona
"David Beck's rigorously researched and engagingly written book is a long-awaited examination of Native American participation in the 1893 World's Fair. . . . Unfair Labor?—a fascinating and deeply illuminating analysis of Indigenous labor at the World's Fair—makes a superb contribution to our understanding of Native life in the late nineteenth century."—Amy Lonetree (Ho-Chunk), author of Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums
"Historian David Beck has written a unique book about the nature of work performed by Native Americans in domestic colonial situations during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He documents how Native American individuals and families were active players in special events—such as fairs, Wild West shows, and world's fairs—that theoretically celebrated American history and culture. These men and women did more than simply play a passive marginalized other."—Nancy Parezo, professor emeritus of American Indian studies and anthropology at the University of Arizona
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