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- Title
Unspoken Intimacies, The Miko Kings, HIU, and Red-Black Convergences: A Conversation with LeAnne Howe.
- Authors
Davis, LaRose
- Abstract
An interview with author LeAnne Howe is presented. When asked about her novel "The Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story," she discusses the roles of colonialism and love in the story. She comments on Hampton University's history as a boarding school for Native American and black students. Howe believes that the colonial project of replacing Native American identity, knowledge, and culture with white European culture has profound impacts in the present day.
- Subjects
VIRGINIA; HOWE, LeAnne; MIKO Kings: An Indian Baseball Story, The (Book); HAMPTON University (Va.); EDUCATION of Native Americans; HISTORY of education of African Americans; IMPERIALISM; NATIVE American history
- Publication
Wicazo Sa Review, 2011, Vol 26, Issue 2, p83
- ISSN
0749-6427
- Publication type
Interview
- DOI
10.5749/wicazosareview.26.2.0083