Chasing Objectivity? Critical Reflections on History, Identity, and the Public Performance of Indian Mascots examines the role of the objectivity within the discipline of history via explorations of research into Native American sports mascots. I argue that Whiteness and other aspects of privilege are intimately, and publicly, entwined with the practice of “doing” history and that through explorations of historical narratives of race, we can reveal the limitations of the subjective-objective divide and the weight of our own privilege as academics and members of the broader American culture.
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