Angelina in the Archives: Tracing Heteropatriarchy and Settler Colonialism in Local Histories of the Pineywoods.
This article draws on Native feminist theories and critical settler colonial studies to analyze the role of heteropatriarchy and settler colonialism in local histories of the East Texas Pineywoods, occupied Caddo lands. Taking up accounts from the early modern colonial period alongside more contempo...
| Publicado en: | Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 121 - 152 |
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University of Nebraska Press
2025
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