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Date of Award
2-2013
Access Type
Campus Access
Document type
dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Degree Program
Anthropology
First Advisor
Jean Forward
Second Advisor
H. Martin Wobst
Third Advisor
N. C. Christopher Couch
Subject Categories
American Studies | Community-Based Research | Indigenous Studies | Mass Communication
Abstract
For centuries, American media has consistently romanticized the image of the Native American Indian. This persistence in producing these romanticized stereotypical and therefore negative images of "Indians" in American popular culture through comic books, graphic novels, computer video games and tattoo imagery is a static narrative that relegates "Indians" to America's past. Consequently, these negative images which have been circulated, reproduced and received for generations, are now deeply - some may even argue inextricably-imbedded in the American national and global meta-narrative. As a result, Native American's protestations regarding their misrepresentation have been repeatedly rendered moot due to the non-native's belief of possessing an already and always knowing of Native American Indian culture. American media and the dominant culture which allows and perpetuates the continued production of stereotypical images deployed through rhetorical and contextual acts, is a blatant reflection of the Euro American consciousness, or lack there of, regarding "Indians".
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/bsgv-mx17
Recommended Citation
Carlson, Marta, "Framed: Native American Represtations in Contempoary Visual Mediums" (2013). Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014. 450.
https://doi.org/10.7275/bsgv-mx17
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_1/450