Indigenous Celebrity: Entanglements with Fame
by Jennifer Adese
University of Manitoba Press, 2021
Cloth: 978-0-88755-923-5 | Paper: 978-0-88755-906-8 | eISBN: 978-0-88755-921-1 (epub) | eISBN: 978-0-88755-922-8 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification P94.5.I532C2164 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.897071
TOC
Cover
Contents
Introduction. Indigeneity, Celebrity, and Fame: Accounting for Colonialism
Chapter 1. Mino-Waawiindaganeziwin: What Does Indigenous Celebrity Mean within Anishinaabeg Contexts?
Chapter 2. Empowering Voices from the Past: The Playing Experiences of Retired Pasifika Rugby League Athletes in Australia
Chapter 3. My Mom, the “Military Mohawk Princess”: kahntinetha Horn through the Lens of Indigenous Female Celebrity
Chapter 4. Indigenous Activism and Celebrity: Negotiating Access, Inclusion, and the Politics of Humility
Chapter 5. Rags-to-Riches and Other Fairytales: Indigenous Celebrity in Australia 1950–80
Chapter 6. “Pretty Boy” Trudeau Versus the “Algonquin Agitator”: Hitting the Ropes of Canadian Conialist Masculinities
Chapter 7. Famous “Last” Speakers: Celebrity and Erasure in Media Coverage of Indigenous Language Endangerment
Chapter 8. Celebrity in Absentia: Situating the Indigenous People of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Social Imaginary
Chapter 9. Marvin Rainwater and “The Pale Faced Indian”: How Cover Songs Appropriated a Story of Cultural Appropriation
Chapter 10. Collectivity as Indigenous Anti-Celebrity: Global Indigeneity and the Indigenous Rights Movement
Chapter 11. Makings, Meanings, and Recognitions: The Stuff of Anishinaabe Stars
Acknowledgements
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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