Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality

By Michelle R. Jacobs,

Book cover of Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality: Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation

Book description

Contemporary accounts of urban Native identity in two pan-Indian communities
In the last half century, changing racial and cultural dynamics in the United States have caused an explosion in the number of people claiming to be American Indian, from just over half a million in 1960 to over three million…

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1 author picked Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Rather than focusing on historical archives, this book is based on years of face-to-face research in and with urban Indigenous communities. Deftly describing the urban politics of identity, Jacobs provides insights into the ways in which Indigenous people manage senses of self and community in the twenty-first-century city.

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