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Book SynopsisCanada's Other Red Scare makes the case that Indigenous political protest during the ’60s should be thought of as both local and transnational, an urgent exercise in confronting the experience of settler-colonialism in places and moments of protest, when its logic and acts of dispossession are held up like a mirror.
Trade Review“Canada’s Other Red Scare contains challenging arguments built on exemplary research. It also reveals one pivotal yet understated contribution in its connection to the personal. Rutherford begins and ends this book by situating himself in his research. His introduction makes clear his motivations for wanting to understand Indigenous political mobilizations around Kenora – his hometown – which helps him to personally and professionally come to terms with his role in settlercolonialism and racialized histories that deliberately erased Indigenous peoples as active historical subjects. In many ways, this work enabled Rutherford to unlearn the history of Kenora that dominated his childhood and punctuated his formative memories, while also providing sophisticated interventions into Canadian historiography.” Histoire sociale/Social History
