Inventing the Savage : The Social Construction of Native American Criminality /
Ross, Luana
Inventing the Savage : The Social Construction of Native American Criminality / Luana Ross. - 1 online resource (326 p.)
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I Colonization and the Social Construction of Deviance -- One WORLDS COLLIDE NEW WORLD, NEW INDIANS -- Two RACIALIZING MONTANA THE CREATION OF "BAD INDIANS" CONTINUES -- PART II Creating Dangerous Women NARRATIVES OF IMPRISONED NATIVE AMERICAN AND WHITE WOMEN -- Three PRISONER PROFILE PAST AND PRESENT -- Four LIVES DICTATED BY VIOLENCE -- Five EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN IN PRISON "THEY KEEP ME AT A LEVEL WHERE THEY CAN CONTROL ME" -- Six REHABILITATION OR CONTROL "WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO DO? DESTROY ME?" -- Seven PRISON SUBCULTURE "IT'S ALL A GAME AND IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME" -- Eight MOTHERHOOD IMPRISONED IMAGES AND CONCERNS OF IMPRISONED MOTHERS -- Nine DOUBLE PUNISHMENT WEAK INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT FOR IMPRISONED MOTHERS -- Ten REHABILITATION AND HEALING OF IMPRISONED MOTHERS -- Eleven NARRATIVE OF A NATIVE WOMAN ON THE OUTSIDE GLORIA WELLS NORLIN (KA MIN DI TAT) -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX: VIOLATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292755901
10.7560/770850 doi
Criminal justice, Administration of--Montana.
Indian prisoners--Montana.
Indian women--Social conditions.--Montana
Racism--Montana.
Women prisoners--Montana.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
E78.M9 / R67 1998
364.3/4970786
Inventing the Savage : The Social Construction of Native American Criminality / Luana Ross. - 1 online resource (326 p.)
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I Colonization and the Social Construction of Deviance -- One WORLDS COLLIDE NEW WORLD, NEW INDIANS -- Two RACIALIZING MONTANA THE CREATION OF "BAD INDIANS" CONTINUES -- PART II Creating Dangerous Women NARRATIVES OF IMPRISONED NATIVE AMERICAN AND WHITE WOMEN -- Three PRISONER PROFILE PAST AND PRESENT -- Four LIVES DICTATED BY VIOLENCE -- Five EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN IN PRISON "THEY KEEP ME AT A LEVEL WHERE THEY CAN CONTROL ME" -- Six REHABILITATION OR CONTROL "WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO DO? DESTROY ME?" -- Seven PRISON SUBCULTURE "IT'S ALL A GAME AND IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME" -- Eight MOTHERHOOD IMPRISONED IMAGES AND CONCERNS OF IMPRISONED MOTHERS -- Nine DOUBLE PUNISHMENT WEAK INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT FOR IMPRISONED MOTHERS -- Ten REHABILITATION AND HEALING OF IMPRISONED MOTHERS -- Eleven NARRATIVE OF A NATIVE WOMAN ON THE OUTSIDE GLORIA WELLS NORLIN (KA MIN DI TAT) -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX: VIOLATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292755901
10.7560/770850 doi
Criminal justice, Administration of--Montana.
Indian prisoners--Montana.
Indian women--Social conditions.--Montana
Racism--Montana.
Women prisoners--Montana.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
E78.M9 / R67 1998
364.3/4970786