The color of the land: race, nation, and the politics of landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929
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Main Author: Chang, David A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2010
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Oklahoma as America -- Owning and being owned : property, slavery, and Creek nationhood to 1865 -- An equal interest in the soil : small-scale farming and the work of nationhood, 1866-1889 -- Raw country and Jeffersonian dreams : the racial politics of allotment -- Policy and the making of landlords and tenants : allotment, landlessness, and Creek politics, 1906-1920s -- We were Negroes then : political programs, landownership, and Black racial coalescence, 1904-1916 -- The battle for whiteness : making whites in a white man's country, 1916-1924 -- Epilogue: Newtown : unsettling Oklahoma, unsettling America
Chang brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the way races and nations were made and remade in conflicts over who would own land, who would farm it, and who would rule it. He argues that in struggles over land, wealth, and power, Oklahomans actively defined and redefined what it meant to be Native American, African American, or white
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 293 pages)
ISBN:0807895768
1469604396
9780807895764
9781469604398

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