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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Chief Illiniwek"”.
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Chief Illiniwek: understanding the controversial discourse and the politics of power
Prominent discourses surrounding the Chief Illiniwek mascot controversy on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus, between the years of 2000-2007, will be examined using textual analysis. Utilizing Tribal Critical Race Theory as a guiding framework for the analysis, various materials …
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White Racism /Redface Minstrels: Regimes of Power in Representation
… Board of Trustees, entitled ""Dialogue on Chief Illiniwek."" I argue herein that Chief Illiniwek is a discourse, a racialized regime of representation---a signifying practice---a stereotype that symbolically fixes boundaries and operates as a representational system and a tool for …
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Managing racial risk in the U.S. university of the twenty-first century: racial theme parties, administrative management, and strategic resistance
… party, Tacos and Tequila, 2) the retirement of Chief Illiniwek, 3) the “Next Dance,” an annual mock-Chief Illiniwek performance held on University Property by a registered student organization and 4) the vandalism of public art work by Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap Of Birds (Cheyenne-Arapaho). I …
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Imperial recollections: The colonial contexts and postcolonial predicaments of exhibiting Native American cultures and histories in the contemporary United States
… (2) the invention and perpetuation of Chief Illiniwek, the athletic mascot of the University of Illinois, (3) the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, and (4) the exhibition of Comanche, supposedly the sole survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, at the University of …
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Raymond Francis Dvorak: His life and career in music
… Mater at the UW-Madison, the invention of the Chief Illiniwek mascot for the University of Illinois, the utilization of group singing by the band from the field during football games, and the introduction of moving formations and the use of a colorguard in the marching band. Additionally, …
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Alternative media for public pedagogy: "Chief" concerns and human agency
… media producers in the pro-Indigenous and anti-“Chief” campaigns at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during the 2006-2007 school year. These narratives demonstrate not only the ways alternative media help transmit dissent by distributing information to diverse populations, but also …