Inventing the Savage

Inventing the Savage

Author: Luana Ross

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-07-05

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0292787685

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“Her book offers many insights into the criminality of Native people, as well as that of women or anyone else who is poor and oppressed.” —Canadian Woman Studies Luana Ross writes, “Native Americans disappear into Euro-American institutions of confinement at alarming rates. People from my reservation appeared to simply vanish and magically return. [As a child] I did not realize what a ‘real’ prison was and did not give it any thought. I imagined this as normal; that all families had relatives who went away and then returned.” In this pathfinding study, Ross draws upon the life histories of imprisoned Native American women to demonstrate how race/ethnicity, gender, and class contribute to the criminalizing of various behaviors and subsequent incarceration rates. Drawing on the Native women’s own words, she reveals the violence in their lives prior to incarceration, their respective responses to it, and how those responses affect their eventual criminalization and imprisonment. Comparisons with the experiences of white women in the same prison underline the significant role of race in determining women’s experiences within the criminal justice system. “Professor Ross, through painstaking phenomenological analysis, has unmasked some of the ways in which (race, class, and gender) prejudices, and their internalization by individuals targeted by them, exert enormous influence on the processes and outcomes of the American criminal justice system . . . This book will be of tremendous import to a broad, interdisciplinary audience.” —Franke Wilmer, Associate Professor of Political Science, Montana State University


Research Methodology

Research Methodology

Author: C. R. Kothari

Publisher: New Age International

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 8122415229

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About the Book: This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and efforts have been made to enhance the usefulness of the book. In this edition a new chapter The Computer: Its Role in Research have been added keeping in view of the fact tha


Language and Gender

Language and Gender

Author: Jane Sunderland

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415311038

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Jane Sunderland presents an up-to-date introduction to language and gender, including work from a diverse range of cultural contexts and representing a variety of methodological approaches.