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In this "Chats in the Stacks" book talk on his new book, "The Colonial Construction of Indian Country: Native American Literatures &amp; Federal Indian Law" (University of Minnesota Press, December 2023) Cheyfitz mounts a pointed historical critique of colonialism through careful analysis of the dialogue between Native American literatures and federal Indian law, both arguing for illuminating how these literatures indict colonial practices, and providing a guide to the projected decolonization of Native America.]]></description>	<author><![CDATA[Cornell University]]></author>	<guid>http://www.cornell.edu/video/eric-cheyfitz</guid>	<cornellcast:vID>10428</cornellcast:vID>	<cornellcast:tags>American studies, CUL, book talk, olin library, amstcal, Indigenous Studies, </cornellcast:tags>	<cornellcast:thumb>//media.univcomm.cornell.edu/photos/original/0D/0D464353-F85F-50E5-E0D4CB774EFEC14F.jpg</cornellcast:thumb>	<cornellcast:thumbii>//media.univcomm.cornell.edu/photos/original/0D/0D464353-F85F-50E5-E0D4CB774EFEC14F.jpg</cornellcast:thumbii>	<cornellcast:poster>https://media.univcomm.cornell.edu/photos/original/0D/0D464353-F85F-50E5-E0D4CB774EFEC14F.jpg</cornellcast:poster>	<cornellcast:eventDate></cornellcast:eventDate>	<cornellcast:duration>01:06:21</cornellcast:duration>	<cornellcast:summary><![CDATA[If the decolonization of Indian country is to be achieved, then federal Indian law must be replaced with independent Native nation sovereignty, says Eric Cheyfitz, Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters and professor of American Indian and Indigenous Studies. In this "Chats in the Stacks" book talk on his new book, "The Colonial Construction of Indian Country: Native American Literatures &amp; Federal Indian Law" (University of Minnesota Press, December 2023) Cheyfitz mounts a pointed historical critique of colonialism through careful analysis of the dialogue between Native American literatures and federal Indian law, both arguing for illuminating how these literatures indict colonial practices, and providing a guide to the projected decolonization of Native America.]]></cornellcast:summary></item><item>	<title><![CDATA[The Demands of Justice with Tamika Nunley]]></title>	<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>	<link>http://www.cornell.edu/video/demands-of-justice-tamika-nunley</link>	<description><![CDATA[In a Chats in the Stacks conversation, Tamika Y. Nunley, associate professor of history, discusses her new book "The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia, 1662-1865 " (The University of North Carolina Press, 2023) with Kofi Acree, the director of the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library and curator of Africana Collections for the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. In The Demands of Justice, Nunley, an award-winning historian has unearthed the stories of enslaved Black women charged by their owners with poisoning, theft, murder, infanticide, and arson. While free Black and white people accused of capital crimes received a hearing, trial, and, if convicted, an opportunity to appeal, none of these options were available to enslaved people. Conviction was final, and only the state or owners could spare their accused chattel of punishment by death. For enslaved women in Virginia, clemency was not uncommon, but Nunley shows why this act ultimately benefited owners and punished the accused with sale outside of the state as the best possible outcome. Demonstrating how crimes, convictions, and clemency functioned within a slave society that upheld the property interests of white Virginians, Nunley reveals the frequency with which owners preferred to keep the accused in bondage, which allowed them, behind the veil of paternalism, to continue to benefit from Black women's labor. This so-called clemency also sought to rob Black women of the power they exercised when they committed capital crimes. The testimonies that Nunley has collected and analyzed offer compelling glimpses of the self-identities forged by Black women as they attempted to resist enslavement and the limits of justice available to them in the antebellum courtroom. This talk was co-hosted by Olin Library and Africana Library.]]></description>	<author><![CDATA[Cornell University]]></author>	<guid>http://www.cornell.edu/video/demands-of-justice-tamika-nunley</guid>	<cornellcast:vID>10312</cornellcast:vID>	<cornellcast:tags>history, CUL, Gender, book talk, Olin library, gender studies, Cornell University Library, Africana Studies,  africal, amstcal, fgsscal, American Studies, Feminist and Gender Studies</cornellcast:tags>	<cornellcast:thumb>//media.univcomm.cornell.edu/photos/original/EE/EE1C1989-B93F-198B-FDE65A67537DA386.jpg</cornellcast:thumb>	<cornellcast:thumbii>//media.univcomm.cornell.edu/photos/original/EE/EE1C1989-B93F-198B-FDE65A67537DA386.jpg</cornellcast:thumbii>	<cornellcast:poster>https://media.univcomm.cornell.edu/photos/original/EE/EE1C1989-B93F-198B-FDE65A67537DA386.jpg</cornellcast:poster>	<cornellcast:eventDate></cornellcast:eventDate>	<cornellcast:duration>01:12:46</cornellcast:duration>	<cornellcast:summary><![CDATA[In a Chats in the Stacks conversation, Tamika Y. Nunley, associate professor of history, discusses her new book "The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia, 1662-1865 " (The University of North Carolina Press, 2023) with Kofi Acree, the director of the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library and curator of Africana Collections for the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. In The Demands of Justice, Nunley, an award-winning historian has unearthed the stories of enslaved Black women charged by their owners with poisoning, theft, murder, infanticide, and arson. While free Black and white people accused of capital crimes received a hearing, trial, and, if convicted, an opportunity to appeal, none of these options were available to enslaved people. Conviction was final, and only the state or owners could spare their accused chattel of punishment by death. For enslaved women in Virginia, clemency was not uncommon, but Nunley shows why this act ultimately benefited owners and punished the accused with sale outside of the state as the best possible outcome. Demonstrating how crimes, convictions, and clemency functioned within a slave society that upheld the property interests of white Virginians, Nunley reveals the frequency with which owners preferred to keep the accused in bondage, which allowed them, behind the veil of paternalism, to continue to benefit from Black women's labor. This so-called clemency also sought to rob Black women of the power they exercised when they committed capital crimes. The testimonies that Nunley has collected and analyzed offer compelling glimpses of the self-identities forged by Black women as they attempted to resist enslavement and the limits of justice available to them in the antebellum courtroom. This talk was co-hosted by Olin Library and Africana Library.]]></cornellcast:summary></item><item>	<title><![CDATA[Adventure Capitalism with Raymond Craib ]]></title>	<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>	<link>http://www.cornell.edu/video/adventure-capitalism-with-raymond-craib</link>	<description><![CDATA[Sometimes dismissed as mere fantasies, utopian capitalist experiments by the ultra-rich have in fact been tried in many places on earth, often with disastrous consequences for the local inhabitants, according to Ray Craib, Marie Underhill Noll Professor of American History. In a live, hybrid Chats in the Stacks book talk, Craib, who also holds affiliations with Romance Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Latino Studies, discusses this history as revealed in his new book "Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age" (PM Press/Spectre, 2022). Based on deep dives into FBI files as well as other archives in the US, the UK, and Vanuatu, "Adventure Capitalism" explores a global history that intersects figures from old guard coup leaders to techno-utopians, segregationists to socialists, and real estate speculators to international spies. Craib explores his work’s implications for understanding the history of contemporary cap­italism, decolonization, and empire, as well as the direction of our global future. ]]></description>	<author><![CDATA[Cornell University Library]]></author>	<guid>http://www.cornell.edu/video/adventure-capitalism-with-raymond-craib</guid>	<cornellcast:vID>10278</cornellcast:vID>	<cornellcast:tags>Cornell University Library, CUL, Latino Studies, Latin American Studies, book talk, olin library, Romance Studies, amstcal, CUHistory</cornellcast:tags>	<cornellcast:thumb>//media.univcomm.cornell.edu/photos/original/D1/D1E59E91-EF99-94B6-ED881B3B46A89EB2.jpg</cornellcast:thumb>	<cornellcast:thumbii>//media.univcomm.cornell.edu/photos/original/D1/D1E59E91-EF99-94B6-ED881B3B46A89EB2.jpg</cornellcast:thumbii>	<cornellcast:poster>https://media.univcomm.cornell.edu/photos/original/D1/D1E59E91-EF99-94B6-ED881B3B46A89EB2.jpg</cornellcast:poster>	<cornellcast:eventDate>2023-10-04</cornellcast:eventDate>	<cornellcast:duration>52:17</cornellcast:duration>	<cornellcast:summary><![CDATA[Sometimes dismissed as mere fantasies, utopian capitalist experiments by the ultra-rich have in fact been tried in many places on earth, often with disastrous consequences for the local inhabitants, according to Ray Craib, Marie Underhill Noll Professor of American History. In a live, hybrid Chats in the Stacks book talk, Craib, who also holds affiliations with Romance Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Latino Studies, discusses this history as revealed in his new book "Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age" (PM Press/Spectre, 2022). Based on deep dives into FBI files as well as other archives in the US, the UK, and Vanuatu, "Adventure Capitalism" explores a global history that intersects figures from old guard coup leaders to techno-utopians, segregationists to socialists, and real estate speculators to international spies. Craib explores his work’s implications for understanding the history of contemporary cap­italism, decolonization, and empire, as well as the direction of our global future. ]]></cornellcast:summary></item><item>	<title><![CDATA[Maria Cristina Garcia on State of Disaster]]></title>	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>	<link>http://www.cornell.edu/video/maria-cristina-garcia-on-state-of-disaster</link>	<description><![CDATA[Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and humanitarian challenges seen today. And yet, under current U.S. law, there is no such thing as a climate refugee. To address today’s realities, U.S. migration policies need to change, argues María Cristina García in an in-person Chats in the Stacks talk about her book State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change (UNC Press, 2022). The book offers a critical history of U.S. policy on migration in the Global South, with a focus on Central America and the Caribbean, where natural disasters worsen poverty, inequality, and domestic and international political tensions.This book talk was sponsored by Olin Library.]]></description>	<author><![CDATA[Cornell University Library]]></author>	<guid>http://www.cornell.edu/video/maria-cristina-garcia-on-state-of-disaster</guid>	<cornellcast:vID>9957</cornellcast:vID>	<cornellcast:tags>history, Cornell University Library, Latino Studies, book talk, olin library, Chats in the Stacks, cascal, LSPCAL, cashum, amstcal, Latin American Studies, CVMPEH</cornellcast:tags>	<cornellcast:thumb>//media.univcomm.cornell.edu/photos/original/B2/B28FD53F-C436-EFB7-6AF1C74276389C82.jpg</cornellcast:thumb>	<cornellcast:thumbii>//media.univcomm.cornell.edu/photos/original/B2/B28FD53F-C436-EFB7-6AF1C74276389C82.jpg</cornellcast:thumbii>	<cornellcast:poster>https://media.univcomm.cornell.edu/photos/original/B2/B28FD53F-C436-EFB7-6AF1C74276389C82.jpg</cornellcast:poster>	<cornellcast:eventDate>2022-09-29</cornellcast:eventDate>	<cornellcast:duration>54:41</cornellcast:duration>	<cornellcast:summary><![CDATA[Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and humanitarian challenges seen today. And yet, under current U.S. law, there is no such thing as a climate refugee. To address today’s realities, U.S. migration policies need to change, argues María Cristina García in an in-person Chats in the Stacks talk about her book State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change (UNC Press, 2022). The book offers a critical history of U.S. policy on migration in the Global South, with a focus on Central America and the Caribbean, where natural disasters worsen poverty, inequality, and domestic and international political tensions.This book talk was sponsored by Olin Library.]]></cornellcast:summary></item><item>	<title><![CDATA[ Free Enterprise: An American History with Lawrence B. Glickman ]]></title>	<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>	<link>http://www.cornell.edu/video/free-enterprise-an-american-history</link>	<description><![CDATA[What’s the definition of “free enterprise”? It depends on the era.Lawrence B. Glickman, the Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor of American Studies in the Department of History, traces the evolution of the phrase, from the 19th century through its conservative reformulation against Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s and on to today his book Free Enterprise: An American History (Yale University Press, 2019). In a live Chats in the Stacks webinar Glickman provides a glimpse into how the concept of free enterprise has been used to shape contemporary American politics in opposition to taxation, government programs, and regulation.]]></description>	<author><![CDATA[College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) (Cornell University)]]></author>	<guid>http://www.cornell.edu/video/free-enterprise-an-american-history</guid>	<cornellcast:vID>9582</cornellcast:vID>	<cornellcast:tags>CUL, book talk, olin library, amstcal</cornellcast:tags>	<cornellcast:thumb>//media.univcomm.cornell.edu/photos/original/4A/4A8EC134-BB59-57F8-0208B0B443017D06.jpg</cornellcast:thumb>	<cornellcast:thumbii>//media.univcomm.cornell.edu/photos/original/4A/4A8EC134-BB59-57F8-0208B0B443017D06.jpg</cornellcast:thumbii>	<cornellcast:poster>https://media.univcomm.cornell.edu/photos/original/4A/4A8EC134-BB59-57F8-0208B0B443017D06.jpg</cornellcast:poster>	<cornellcast:eventDate>2020-10-28</cornellcast:eventDate>	<cornellcast:duration>56:59</cornellcast:duration>	<cornellcast:summary><![CDATA[What’s the definition of “free enterprise”? It depends on the era.Lawrence B. Glickman, the Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor of American Studies in the Department of History, traces the evolution of the phrase, from the 19th century through its conservative reformulation against Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s and on to today his book Free Enterprise: An American History (Yale University Press, 2019). In a live Chats in the Stacks webinar Glickman provides a glimpse into how the concept of free enterprise has been used to shape contemporary American politics in opposition to taxation, government programs, and regulation.]]></cornellcast:summary></item>

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