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Red Skins, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition Glen Coulthard Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press , 2014, pp. 256.
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In his book, Red Skins, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition, Glen Coulthard essentially presents the theory behind the Idle No More movement in Canada. The work offers a critical reading of a range of political theory, but at times and with convincing cases and logic, it reads as a manifesto for righteous rebellion in the Canadian state. He raises the question of what would purposeful "recognition" look like. He rejects almost every government policy in Canada. His five theses put forth at the end of the book are direct action, anti-capitalism, sovereignty in cities, gender justice and a movement beyond the nation state towards a refurbishment of the traditional political and economic practices of indigenous people. In a bold theoretical move, this work invokes authors at the heart of the African anti-colonial movements in the 1960s and 1970s and attempts to narrate and shape the basis of First Nations (FN) resurgence and the strengthening of anti-colonialism in Canada.
Situating the discussion within the Canadian politics of recognition, Coulthard effectively argues...