Land, God and Guns: Settler Colonialism and Masculinity in the American Heartland Gahman Levi
Land, God and Guns: Settler Colonialism and Masculinity in the American Heartland Gahman Levi This book is an antidote to the forms of American nationalism, masculinity, exceptionalism, and…
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Land, God and Guns: Settler Colonialism and Masculinity in the American Heartland Gahman Levi
This book is an antidote to the forms of American nationalism, masculinity, exceptionalism, and self-anointed prowess that are currently being flexed on the global stage.Through a fascinating combination of ethnographic research across seven US states and the application of postcolonial, anti-racist, feminist and poststructuralist theories, Land, God, and Guns reveals how time-honoured rites of passage associated with taken-for-granted notions of manhood in the American Heartland are constitutive of a constellation of colonial worldviews, capitalist logics, gender essentialisms, ethnocentric religious beliefs, jingoistic populism, racial animus, and embodied violence. A constellation that, within the US, upholds a heteropatriarchal and racist ordering of life that both privileges and ultimately damages its main proliferators - white settler men.This is a detailed