Overview
Our Fight Has Just Begun is a timely and urgent work. The result of more than a decade of research, it revises history, documents anti-Indianism, and gives voice to victims of racial violence. Navajo scholar Cheryl Redhorse Bennett reveals a lesser-known story of Navajo activism and the courageous organizers that confronted racial injustice and inspired generations. Illuminating largely untold stories of hate crimes committed against Native Americans in the Four Corners region of the United States, this work places these stories within a larger history, connecting historical violence in the United States to present-day hate crimes. Bennett contends that hate crimes committed against Native Americans have persisted as an extension of an “Indian hating” ideology that has existed since colonization, exposing how the justice system has failed Native American victims and families. While this book looks deeply at multiple generations of unnecessary and ongoing pain and violence, it also recognizes that this is a time of uncertainty and hope. The movement to abolish racial injustice and racially motivated violence has gained fierce momentum. Our Fight Has Just Begun shows that racism, hate speech, and hate crimes are ever present and offers recommendations for racial justice.
Full Product Details
Author: Cheryl Redhorse Bennett
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.10cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.318kg
ISBN: 9780816541676
ISBN 10: 0816541671
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 28 February 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""Bennett offers a reference point for understanding contemporary issues of racial violence, underscoring the firm entrenchment of systemic racism. Highly recommended.""-- G. R. Campbell, CHOICE ""Our Fight Has Just Begun provides the reader with a deep understanding of how racial violence towards Native Americans is entrenched systemically and how the continued power of white supremacy impacts Native Americans.""--Angelo Kevin Brown, Decolonization of Criminology and Justice"
Bennett offers a reference point for understanding contemporary issues of racial violence, underscoring the firm entrenchment of systemic racism. Highly recommended. -- G. R. Campbell, CHOICE
"""Bennett offers a reference point for understanding contemporary issues of racial violence, underscoring the firm entrenchment of systemic racism. Highly recommended.""-- G. R. Campbell, CHOICE"
Author Information
Cheryl Redhorse Bennett is an enrolled citizen of the Navajo Nation and also descends from the Comanche Nation. She is an assistant professor at Montana State University.
