This presentation will focus on Native American racialized mascots which serve to use language/words/labels as a means of constructing the identity of Native peoples in the popular imagination. The two words at issue seem to have general meanings which have been presented as opposites of their associated definitions/meanings. A closer comparison, however, finds them invariably names for the same item. The paradox of constructed ideas surrounding the two words/ideas represents the manipulations of these ideals of which the two speak.
About the presenterMichael Taylor
Visiting Assistant Professor at Ithaca College Center for the Study of Culture, Race, Ethnicity Research areas include Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Studies Contemporary Issues in Native American Studies and Anthropology