ISBN:
9781496219435
Language:
English
Pages:
xxvii, 321 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten, Pläne
,
24 cm
DDC:
978.600496/073
Keywords:
African Americans History
;
African Americans Social conditions
;
Race discrimination History
;
Settler colonialism
;
Montana Race relations
;
Montana
;
Landnahme
;
Siedler
;
Schwarze
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Rassendiskriminierung
;
Soziale Situation
;
Geschichte 1877-1930
Abstract:
Introduction : Colonial erosion -- The golden West : black settlers to Montana, 1877-1917 -- Making black settler space and the paradox of the color line -- Great debates : black settler politics in the new age -- Thinking with magpies : Montana's conservation movement and the occlusion of the black wilderness experience -- Colonial kinships : sexuality, the family, and anti-miscegenation law in Montana -- History among the sediments : on the entanglements of race and religion -- Conclusion & epilogue : the endurance of black Montana -- Appendix: Homestead research : Montana homesteader displacement following 1917.
Abstract:
"Black Montana argues that the state of Montana, in its capacity as a settler colony, worked to exclude the black community that began to form inside its borders after Reconstruction"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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