Melanie K. Yazzie (Diné) is an assistant professor in the Departments of Native American Studies and American Studies at the University of New Mexico. She organizes with the Red Nation, an indigenous-led leftist organization committed to indigenous liberation. She is lead editor of Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, an international journal committed to public intellectualism and social justice.
Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation
SKU: 9781629638317
Author: Nick Estes, Melanie Yazzie, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, and David Correia • Foreword by Radmilla Cody and Brandon Benallie
Series: PM Press
ISBN: 978-1-62963-831-7
Published: 02/2021
Format: Paperback
Size: 6×9
Pages: 256
Subjects: Indigenous / Organizing
Praise
“The authors of this brilliant exposition on bordertown violence are
no ordinary academics, although academia would benefit from having more
faculty scholars such as these. They are also master organizers, a part
of a network of indigenous and other community organizers in Indian
Country fueling the process of decolonization of Native lands and
communities. Bordertown violence is as old as US colonization of the
continent itself, and it persists today in the towns and cities that
border Native reservations and communities all over US-claimed territory
and is replicated in even more distant cities that have large Native
populations, many of whom are homeless. This may be the most important
organizing manual ever produced by a social movement in the United
States.”
—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
“The borders racking our world are in constant motion and, like the
explosive grinding of tectonic plates, the violence of this movement and
resistance to it emerges most sharply at the edges. This essential
volume brings together militant intellectuals to provide an accessible
introduction to the violent encirclement of indigenous communities, and
to provide crucial concept-weapons to deepen ongoing collective
resistance.”
—George Ciccariello-Maher, author of Decolonizing Dialectics
“Red Nation Rising shines a revolutionary spotlight on
border politics in the United States. By centering the framework of
bordertown violence, this book extends and sharpens our critical
understanding of what it means to struggle for liberation and freedom on
stolen land. Showcasing the ways that settler colonialism works through
our ideas about place, belonging, migration, and territory, the book’s
crucial theoretical interventions, extensive glossary, and anticolonial
manifesto demand that we think differently about that constitutes ‘the
border.’ Essential reading for academics and political organizers
committed to radical praxis and politicized solidarity with everyday
Native people resisting colonial occupation.”
—Jaskiran Dhillon, associate professor of global studies and anthropology, the New School; author of Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention; coeditor of Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement
“A remarkable body of work that effectively weaves long overdue
native scholarship and historical analysis of settler colonialism with
direct and timely frontline reports on the continuing bordertown wars
and conflicts in occupied native territories. Offers a comprehensive
framework for advancing present and future indigenous resistance and
liberation struggles.”
—John Redhouse (Diné)
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