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Native American Whalemen and the World: Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race Nancy Shoemaker
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Native American Whalemen and the World: Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race
Nancy Shoemaker
Commendation Quotes: This fascinating study of Native American whalemen is an impressive achievement: a careful, deeply informed, and insightful analysis of the complexities and variable nature of identity. Shoemaker successfully recovers the lives of some of the most elusive historical subjects, working-class men from marginalized communities, whose names, residences, nationalities, and ethnicities all varied dramatically from place to place and over the course of their lives. Identifying and locating these shape-shiftings is at the center of Shoemaker's persuasive argument about the contingency of race.--Lisa Norling, author of "Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870"Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Commendation Quotes: "Native American Whalemen and the World" is one of the most original studies of race making that I've read. It is distinguished in its focus on American Indians--both in terms of their racial thoughts and actions and in how whites thought about and treated them--and in its tracing of American Indian whalers wherever they sailed. Shoemaker challenges easy categories of indigeneity while taking the reader on a global tour that extends from the shores of New England and Long Island to the Arctic, the Azores, California, Hawaii, Tahiti, Fiji, and beyond. A superb piece of scholarship.--David J. Silverman, George Washington University Contributor Bio: Shoemaker, Nancy Nancy Shoemaker is professor of history at the University of Connecticut.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 27, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781469622576 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Genre | Ethnic Orientation > Native American |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 26 mm · 607 g |
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