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By Scott Lauria Morgensen

Explores the intimate dating of non-Native and local sexual politics within the United States

"This is an interesting multi-disciplinary publication that analyzes the difficult linkages, appropriations, and productions round discourses of local and non-Native queer activities of indigeneity and nationwide belonging. Scott Lauria Morgensen is a proficient author and student with a sublime eye for special and nuanced analysis." —Martin F. Manalansan, writer of worldwide Divas: Filipino homosexual males within the Diaspora

"Spaces among Us is excellent paintings that's unceasingly serious, moral, and illuminating in its learn, research, and theorization. Morgensen demanding situations formations of queer settler colonialism during this significant intervention undertaken with a severe technique that has implications for varied fields." —J. Kehaulani Kauanui, writer of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity

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Thus, if colonial observers invoked berdache to mark Indigenous difference, the aim was to teach both colonial and Indigenous subjects the relational terms of colonial hetero­ patriarchy. Earlier generations of feminist scholars argued that a bias in colonial tales of berdache erased female embodiment from accounts of Native gender and sexual diversity. But feminist critiques in the wake of Stoler and Smith note that the condemnation of Native male embodiment in colonial accounts of berdache established the masculinist and hetero­ patriarchal terms of colonial power.

Thus, I invoke berdache to indicate not persons but a logic of sexual primitivity and civilization that created Indigenous people and colonists in relation to each other. In the process, colonial discourses of race and sexuality came to mark transgressive individuals and entire communities when they meted out spectacular death to educate Native peoples in the moral order of colonization. Histories of colonial control over Indigenous male sexuality support Foucault’s claim that a sovereign right of death joined the rationalizing management of populations to produce modern disciplinary power.

Queer modernities in a settler society are produced in contextual relationship to the settler colonial conditions of modern sexuality. White settlers promulgating colonial heteropatriarchy queered Native peoples and all racialized subject populations for elimination and regulation by the biopolitics of settler colonialism. 1 Mbembe invites revisiting the racialization and sexualization of colonial situations, including in white settler societies in the Americas that formed multiracial so­cieties from the transatlantic slave trade, colonized indentured labor, and genocidal control of Indigenous peoples under European settlement.

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