Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of Native American Criminality by Luana Ross

Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of Native American Criminality

Luana Ross

326 pages • first pub 1998 (view editions)

nonfiction crime historical history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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