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A compelling and definitive history...of racist preconceptions in white behavior toward native Americans.—Leo Marx, The New York Times Book Review

Columbus called them Indians because his geography was faulty. But that name and, more important, the images it has come to suggest have endured for five centuries, not only obscuring the true identity of the original Americans but serving as an ideological weapon in their subjugation. Now, in this brilliant and deeply disturbing reinterpretation of the American past, Robert Berkhofer has written an impressively documented account of the self-serving stereotypes Europeans and white Americans have concocted about the Indian: Noble Savage or bloodthirsty redskin, he was deemed inferior in the light of western, Christian civilization and manipulated to its benefit. A thought-provoking and revelatory study of the absolute, seemingly ineradicable pervasiveness of white racism, The White Man's Indian is a truly important b

White Mans Indian Images of the American Indian

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: 12/02/1979
      ISBN13: 9780394727943, 978-0394727943
      ISBN10: 0394727940
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A compelling and definitive history...of racist preconceptions in white behavior toward native Americans.—Leo Marx, The New York Times Book Review

      Columbus called them Indians because his geography was faulty. But that name and, more important, the images it has come to suggest have endured for five centuries, not only obscuring the true identity of the original Americans but serving as an ideological weapon in their subjugation. Now, in this brilliant and deeply disturbing reinterpretation of the American past, Robert Berkhofer has written an impressively documented account of the self-serving stereotypes Europeans and white Americans have concocted about the Indian: Noble Savage or bloodthirsty redskin, he was deemed inferior in the light of western, Christian civilization and manipulated to its benefit. A thought-provoking and revelatory study of the absolute, seemingly ineradicable pervasiveness of white racism, The White Man's Indian is a truly important b

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