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Black, white, and Indian : race and the unmaking of an American family / Claudio Saunt

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005

1 online resource (xii, 300 p.)

Englisch

Druckausg.: Black, white, and Indian / Saunt, Claudio

978-0-19-978897-2

OCoLC: 704558492     

OCoLC: 704558492 (aus SWB)     

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195176315.001.0001

MS 3530      Ähnliche Literatur

929.20890597385073

Basisklassifikation: 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte> ; 15.12 (Genealogie; Heraldik) ; 71.62 (Ethnische Beziehungen)

*Grayson (Familie) ; Geschichte     Zum Register

*Creek ; Schwarze ; Weiße ; Rassenmischung ; Geschichte      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Creek Indians -- History -- Sources ; Creek Indians -- Mixed descent ; Creek Indians -- Genealogy ; Blacks -- Southern States -- Relations with Indians ; Whites -- Southern States -- Relations with Indians ; Interracial marriage -- Southern States -- History

This tells the story of a Native American family with a long kept secret: one branch is of African descent. Focusing on five generations from 1780 to 1920, Saunt shows how Indians disowned their black relatives to survive in the shadow of the expanding American republic.