Full Description
Indigenous Celebrity speaks to the possibilities, challenges, and consequences of popular forms of recognition, critically recasting the lens through which we understand Indigenous people's entanglements with celebrity. It presents a wide range of essays that explore the theoretical, material, social, cultural, and political impacts of celebrity on and for Indigenous people. It questions and critiques the whitestream concept of celebrity and the very juxtaposition of "Indigenous" and "celebrity" and casts a critical lens on celebrity culture's impact on Indigenous people. Indigenous people who willingly engage with celebrity culture, or are drawn up into it, enter into a complex terrain of social relations informed by layered dimensions of colonialism, racism, sexism, homophobia/transphobia, and classism. Yet this reductive framing of celebrity does not account for the ways that Indigenous people's own worldviews inform Indigenous engagement with celebrity culture--or rather, popular social and cultural forms of recognition.
Indigenous Celebrity reorients conversations on Indigenous celebrity towards understanding how Indigenous people draw from nation-specific processes of respect and recognition while at the same time navigating external assumptions and expectations. This collection examines the relationship of Indigenous people to the concept of celebrity in past, present, and ongoing contexts, identifying commonalities, tensions, and possibilities.
Contents
Introduction - Indigeneity, Celebrity, and Fame: Accounting for Colonialism
Chapter 1 Mino-Waawiindaganeziwin: What Does Indigenous Celebrity Mean within Anishinaabeg Contexts?
Chapter 2 Empowering Voices from the Past: The Playing Experiences of Retired Pasifika Rugby League Athletes in Australia
Chapter 3 My Mom, The 'Military Mohawk Princess': kahntinetha Horn through the lens of Indigenous female celebrity
Chapter 4 Indigenous activism and celebrity: negotiating access, expectation, and obligation
Chapter 5 Rags-to-Riches and Other Fairytales: Indigenous Celebrity in Australia 1950-1980
Chapter 6 "Pretty Boy" Trudeau vs. the "Algonquin Agitator": Hitting the Ropes of Canadian Colonialist Masculinities
Chapter 7 Famous "Last" Speakers: Celebrity and Erasure in Media Coverage of Indigenous Language Endangerment
Chapter 8 Celebrity in Absentia: situating the Indigenous of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian social imaginary
Chapter 9 Marvin Rainwater and the Pale Faced Indian: How Cover Songs Appropriated a Story of Cultural Appropriation
Chapter 10 Collectivity as Indigenous Anti-Celebrity: Global Indigeneity and the Indigenous Rights Movement
Chapter 11 Makings, Meanings, and Recognitions: The Stuff of Anishinaabe Stars
