Making Sense of a Sense of Self
Fabricating Authenticity - Jason W.M. Ellsworth
Israel L. Domínguez [+]
Grand Valley State University
Israel L. Domínguez is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University. His primary research interests focus on decolonization within the context of the U.S.-Mexico borderland religious traditions.
Description
Furthering Smith’s analysis, Domínguez explores the complexity of indigenous identity and highlights the lack of historical records of many people in indigenous communities in the Américas. Drawing on Anzaldúa’s theory of nepantla, Domínguez argues that many identity categories—like those present in GATs—reify white, European colonial notions of authentic identity while delegitimizing racially-, culturally- and gender-fluid categories that don’t fit within the binary system.