Joanne Barker

Lenni-Lenape

(Delaware Tribe of Indians)

 

Associate Professor

American Indian Studies

San Francisco State University

 

Contact Information/Mailing Address

  

1600 Holloway Avenue

San Francisco, CA 94132

 

Office: Ethnic Studies & Psychology (EP) Building #106

Phone: (415) 338-7062

FAX: (415) 405-0496

Email: jmbarker@sfsu.edu

 

Please note that as a general rule I only respond to work related emails during normal university business hours, M-F 8-5, and not on weekends or during holidays.

 

 

Summer 2013

(June 24 - August 13)

 

Teaching

 

AIS 205.01: American Indians and U.S. Laws: On-Line

 

Office Hours

 

By appointment

 

Fall 2013

(August 26 – December 21)

 

Teaching

 

AIS 100.01: Introduction to American Indian Studies

TTh 11:10-12:15

 

AIS 205.01: American Indians and U.S. Laws: On-Line

 

AIS 460.01: Power and Politics in American Indian History

TTh 2:10-3:25

 

Office Hours

 

TBA

 

Publications Include

 

Books

 

The Science of Rights: Native Historical Experiences and the Politics of U.S. Modernity (book monograph in process).

 

Editor, Critical Native/Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies: An Edited Volume. (proposed).

 

Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011.

 

Editor, Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination. Contemporary Indigenous Issues Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

 

Articles & Essays

 

Redwashing, Pinkwashing, Whitewashing: Israel’s Apartheid in the Colors of Alliance” (article in process).

 

“Thanks Giving and Introduction.” Critical Native/Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies: An Edited Volume. Joanne Barker, ed. (proposed).

 

“In Debt: A Reconsideration of ‘Race, Empire, and the Subprime Crisis’ from Manna-hata.” (submitted).

 

“The Specters of Recognition.” Formations of U.S. Colonialism. Alyosha Goldstein, ed. Durham and London: Duke University Press (in revision).

 

 “Gender.” The Indigenous World of North America. Robert Warrior, ed. New York: Routledge Press (in copy-editing).

 

 “The Recognition of NAGPRA: A Human Rights Promise Deferred.” Sovereignty Struggles and Native Rights in the United States: State and Federal Recognition. Amy E. Den Ouden and Jean M. O’Brien, editors. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

 

"Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism." Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 7, no. 1 (2006), 127-161.

 

"Recognition." Special joint issue of Indigenous Nations Journal and American Studies 46, nos. 3/4 (Fall 2005/Spring 2006), 117-145.

 

“For Whom Sovereignty Matters.” Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination. Contemporary Indigenous Issues Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

 

"The Human Genome Diversity Project: 'Peoples', 'Populations', and the Cultural Politics of Identification." Cultural Studies 18, no. 4 (2004), 578-613.

 

"Indian™ U.S.A." Wicazō Śa Review: A Native American Studies Journal 18, no. 1 (2003), 24-79.

 

“Looking for Warrior Woman (Beyond Pocahontas)." this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation. AnaLouise Keating and Gloria Anzaldúa, eds. (New York: Routledge Press, 2002, 314-325). Reprinted in, though originally written for, Beyond the Frame. Neferti Tadiar and Angela Davis, eds. (New York: Palgrave Press, 2005, 61-76).

 

Other Stuff

 

Blog: Tequila Sovereign

 

See Indigenous Scholars Oppose Navajo President 'Becoming Partners' With Israel.” Gale Courey Toensing. Indian Country Today. April 6, 2013.

 

Memorandum of Solidarity With Indigenous Peoples, passed at the Occupy Oakland General Assembly. Friday, October 28, 2011.

 

Radio interview – with Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Cheyenne River Lakota) and Steven Newcomb (Lenape and Shawnee) – on J. Kēhaulani Kauanui’s (Kanaka Maoli) show, Indigenous Politics, about the politics of OWS. October 18, 2011.

 

Op-ed in the New York Times: Room For Debate – with others by Kevin Mallard (Seminole), Cara Cowan-Watts (Cherokee), Matthew L.M. Fletcher (Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians), Rose Cuison Villazor, Heather Williams (Cherokee), Carla D. Pratt, and Tiya Miles – on the political issues surrounding the Cherokee Freedmen. September 15, 2011.

 

Upcoming Conference Presentations

 

Center for American Studies and Research at the American University Beirut, Transnational American Studies Conference, January 6-9, 2014. Beirut, Lebanon.

 

American Studies Association Annual Meeting, “Beyond the Logic of Debt: Towards an Ethics of Collective Dissent,” American Studies Association. November 21-24, 2013, Washington, DC.

 

 

 

Updated:  June 16, 2013