Ethnicity, Inc.

Comaroff, John L., and Jean Comaroff. Ethnicity, Inc. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2009.
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"This is hardly unprecedented: the claim of sovereign autonomy by indigenous tribes as a rhetoric of refusal in their dealings with the US government runs deep into the archaeology of modern American Racial politics. And up against the liberal ideal of an American nationhood founded, constitutionally, on equal, horizontal citizenship under one law" (76).
"not least by deploying space-time vacuums in existing jurisprudential geographies in order to create temporary terrains of immunity for themselves" (79).
"In the process, too, each has, without necessarily being aware of it, naturalized the trope of identity around which their rights have come to adhere" (115).
"Does ID-ology clothe itself in a neoliberal sense of the natural, the ineluctable, the right-ful. And of private property as an elemental fact of being, individual and collective" (115).