Possessive investment: Indian removals and the affective entitlements of whiteness

American Quarterly

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1077-1084

  Goldstein, Alyosha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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EID: 84919460672     PISSN: 00030678     EISSN: 10806490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/aq.2014.0075     Document Type: Review

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