Re-imagining Indian Country: American Indians and Cities in Modern America

3:00 to 5:00 pm Tuesday, February 7, 2006
338 Administration , UC Irvine

American Indians have increasingly made their way to U.S. cities over the last century, and a majority now live in urban areas. Yet scholars, policymakers, and the general public continue to treat American Indians as a reservation-based people, cut off from the currents of modern life. This presentation is drawn from my current research project, a history of American Indians and cities in modern America. It will focus on the lives of American Indian actors who worked in Hollywood from the 1910s to the 1930s, highlighting broader themes of mobility and migration, racialized power structures, and subaltern agency. The talk will conclude with comments about how this history of American Indians in Hollywood continues to inform present-day struggles over race, labor, identity, and cultural space in America. Nicolas G. Rosenthal received his Ph.D. in American history from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is currently a Kevin Starr Postdoctoral Fellow in California Studies at the UC Humanities Research Institute. His work, which focuses on race and ethnicity, the American West, and American Indian history, appears in several anthologies and journals.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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