Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader [Paperback]

Ward Churchill (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415931568 | ISBN-13: 978-0415931564 | Publication Date: December 15, 2002 | Edition: 1

What could be more American than Columbus Day? Or the Washington Redskins? For Native Americans, they are bitter reminders that they live in a world where their identity is still fodder for white society.

"The law has always been used as toilet paper by the status quo where American Indians are concerned," writes Ward Churchill in Acts of Rebellion, a collection of his most important writings from the past twenty years. Vocal and incisive, Churchill stands at the forefront of American Indian concerns, from land issues to the American Indian Movement, from government repression to the history of genocide.

Churchill, one of the most respected writers on Native American issues, lends a strong and radical voice to the American Indian cause. Acts of Rebellion shows how the most basic civil rights' laws put into place to aid all Americans failed miserably, and continue to fail, when put into practice for our indigenous brothers and sisters. Seeking to convey what has been done to Native North America, Churchill skillfully dissects Native Americans' struggles for property and freedom, their resistance and repression, cultural issues, and radical Indian ideologies.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This valuable collection of forceful writings by an influential Native American leader is highly recommended for all academic libraries.
–Library Journal, March 15, 2003

Ward Churchill has carved out a special place for himself in defending the rights of oppressed people, and exposing the dark side of past and current history, often forgotten, marginalized, or suppressed. These are achievements of inestimable value..
–Noam Chomsky

Ward Churchill is one of our most powerful chroniclers of Indian history-both of the sorry record of the United States government and the extraordinary resistance of the Indian people to policies of removal and annihilation. Each one of his books is an education in itself..
–Howard Zinn

About the Author

Ward Churchill is Professor and Associate Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has written scores of articles, along with eight books, including Agents of Repression and A Little Matter of Genocide. Three of his books have won the Gustavus Meyer Award for Human Rights.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (December 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415931568
• ISBN-13: 978-0415931564
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,121,644 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Churchill's Masterpiece, April 19, 2010

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This review is from: Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader (Paperback)

They say this and that about old Ward Churchill but whatever he is he is indeed a literary scholar and this work is a product of 30 years of excellent research put together in a great way and order if you really want to know the true history of America the country versus it's Native peoples, or you want to know what it means to be Indian or part indian or you really have an interest in the absolute truth about Native studies and this countries policies towards them since before the beginning when the British were still here to the pulse of modern times This Is One Book You Need To Read! It is expensive so try it used or however you can get it but definately READ IT!

21 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Churchill tells it like it is!!, October 12, 2004

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e-swann (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader (Paperback)

Churchill refuses to let history be told as if native peoples either do not exist, or exist only as mere stage sets for some great movie Western.

READ THIS BOOK and see how only a word like "genocide" can be used to explain the history of U.S. relations with Native Americans, and how this same genocide continues to this day.

Churchill emphasizes the necessary connection those engaged in globalization strugglers in general must forge between their struggles and those of native peoples if they are to be successful.

Clear and concise, An excellent Churchill reader!

I Also recommend "Pacifism as Pathology".

27 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good writing, but I'm leery of the author..., December 11, 2003

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This review is from: Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader (Paperback)

What a dilemma! What do you do when a book is well-written and well-researched, but you also happen to be aware that the author is uncomfortably steeped in controversies over his own misrepresentation of himself, his occasionally violent behavior toward women and elders, and his crass dismissal of victims of violence through which he justifies the use of violent assault on those regarded as political enemies? (he teased that the 9-11 victims were deserving targets).

Well, I guess you try to be honest. You say "This guy writes well!" and "His research is reliable and worth collecting."

But then you caution readers that Churchill himself is unsettling to MANY traditional Native people who do not regard him as an authentic representation of an Indian voice or ethic, and you urge readers to research Churchill online in order to distinguish between a skilled collection of scholarship and an individual author whom some may find to be blasphemous to Native traditionalism.