Red Hoop Talk EP 54: MISHUANA GOEMAN, Tonawanda Seneca
Join #REDHOOPTALK this Friday at 5 pm Eastern to visit with scholar, professor and activist Dr. Mishuana Goeman! She is Tonawanda Band of Seneca and a Professor of Gender Studies, American Indian Studies, and Critical Race Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Mishuana’s research centers on Native American literature, 20th Century American literature, and race and ethnic theory.
Mishuana is also the inaugural Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous Affairs at UCLA. She is the author of “Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations” (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and the forthcoming “Settler Aesthetics and the Spectacle of Originary Moments: Terrence Malick’s the New World” (University of Nebraska Press). Additionally, she is part of the feminist editorial collective for “Keywords in Gender and Sexuality Studies” from NYU Press forthcoming in Fall 2021. She is helping to develop two community based digital projects, Mapping Indigenous L.A., which gathers alternative maps of resiliency from Indigenous LA communities, and Carrying Our Ancestors Home, a site concentrating on better working Tribal relationships and communications as it concerns repatriation and NAGPRA – which the Association is also a part of!
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