[nativestudies-l] Archived episode of Circe Sturm interview on her new book, Becoming Indian

[jkauanui at wesleyan.edu]

http://indigenouspolitics.mypodcast.com/2011/09/Circe_Sturm_Becoming_Indian-359701.html

Join your host, J.
Kehaulani  Kauanui, for an interview with Circe Sturm who
discusses her new book,  Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee
Identity in the 21st Century  (SAR Press, 2011).  Sturm examines
Cherokee identity politics and the  phenomenon of racial shifting. She
explores the social and cultural  values that lie behind this phenomenon
and delves into the motivations  of these individuals who find deep
personal and collective meaning in  reclaiming (or simply claiming)
Indianness. Sturm teaches at the  University of Texas at Austin, where she
is an Associate Professor of  Anthropology and co-Director of the Native
American and Indigenous  Studies program. Her first book, Blood Politics:
Race, Culture and  Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
(California, 2002), explores  issues of race, culture, nation and
citizenship in Cherokee Country,  particularly as they are expressed
through the idiom of  “blood.”  Recently, Sturm has turned her
attention to related debates about  indigenous reclamation, tribal
recognition and sovereignty—all themes in  her new book. Original
air-date: 9-20-11. 					 	

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