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Dilworth, Leah Collett was born on May 20, 1960 in Austin, Texas, United States. Daughter of Coke Hairston and Zane Dilworth.
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In Imagining Indians in the Southwest, Leah Dilworth examines the creation and enduring potency of the early twentieth-century myth of the primitive Indian. She demonstrates how visions of Indians -- created by tour companies, anthropologists, collectors of Indian crafts, and modernist writers -- have reflected white anxieties about complex racial and cultural issues. Dilworth explores diverse expressions of mainstream society's primitivist impulse -- from the Fred Harvey Company's guided tours of Indian pueblos supposedly untouched by modern life to ethnographic descriptions of the Hopi Snake dance as alien and exotic. She reveals how magazines touted the preindustrial simplicity of Indian artisanal occupations and how Mary Austin's 1923 book, The American Rhythm, urged poets to emulate the cadences of Native American song and dance. Contending that Native Americans of the Southwest still are seen primarily as living relics, Dilworth describes the ways in which they have resisted cultural colonialism. She concludes with a consideration of two contemporary artists who, by infusing their works with history and complexity, are recasting the practices and politics of primitivism.
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Dilworth, Leah Collett was born on May 20, 1960 in Austin, Texas, United States. Daughter of Coke Hairston and Zane Dilworth.
Bachelor in English, Oberlin College, 1982; Master of Arts, Yale University, 1989; Doctor of Philosophy in American Studies, Yale University, 1992.
Production editor, Scholastic, Inc., New York City, 1983-1985; production assistant, Art News Magazine, New York City, 1985-1986; teaching fellow, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1988-1991; adjunct instructor, York College, New York City, 1992-1993; visiting instructor, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1993; assistant professor, Long Island University, Brooklyn, since 1993.
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Member Transportation Alternatives, New York City, since 1993. Member New York Metro American Studies Association (secretary), American Studies Association, Modern Language Association.