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CNAIS faculty Stephen Graham Jones on Transcending Stereotypes

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Stephen Graham Jones at 蜜糖直播. Photo credit: Anthony Camera

University of New Mexico Press will publish in December. Jones, who is also CNAIS Core Faculty and an English professor at 蜜糖直播 was interviewed this month by Jenny Shank in High Country News. In the interview he talks about his work and transcending stereotypes for Native Americans:

High Country News: You鈥檝e said that you 鈥済ot really tired of people asking in interviews, 鈥榃hat鈥檚 supposed to be Indian about this?鈥 鈥 and that in several books you鈥檝e disguised elements that come from Native culture.

Stephen Graham Jones:听My book听Growing up Dead in Texas听(MP Publishing LTD, 2012) only has the word 鈥淚ndian鈥 once in it. But to me that book is so Indian. It鈥檚 the life patterns that are Indian, not the skin tone or cultural heritage. It鈥檚 a way of existing in the world, a world you don鈥檛 always plug into the way you feel that you鈥檙e supposed to.听

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