ISBN:
9780807871065
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (308 p)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Color of the Land
DDC:
305.8009766
Keywords:
African Americans ; Land tenure ; Oklahoma ; History
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Allotment of land ; Oklahoma ; History
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Creek Indians ; Land tenure ; Oklahoma ; History
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Creek Indians ; Oklahoma ; Ethnic identity
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Land tenure ; Social aspects ; Oklahoma ; History
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Oklahoma ; Race relations ; History
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Whites ; Land tenure ; Oklahoma ; History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The Color of the Land 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. This story disrupts expected narratives of the American past, revealing how identities--race, nation, and class--took new forms in struggles over the creation of different systems of property.Conflicts were unleashed by a series of sweeping changes: the forced ""removal"" of the Creeks from their homeland to Oklahoma in the 1830s
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Oklahoma as America; PART I: BEFORE ALLOTMENT: Land and the Making of Creek Nationhoods; 1 Owning and Being Owned: Property, Slavery, and Creek Nationhood to 1865; 2 An Equal Interest in the Soil: Small-Scale Farming and the Work of Nationhood, 1866-1889; PART II: ALLOTMENT: Dividing Lands, Nations, and Races; 3 Raw Country and Jeffersonian Dreams: The Racial Politics of Allotment; PART III: LIVING UNDER ALLOTMENT: Race and Property; 4 Policy and the Making of Landlords and Tenants: Allotment, Landlessness, and Creek Politics, 1906-1920s
Description / Table of Contents:
5 We Were Negroes Then: Political Programs, Landownership, and Black Racial Coalescence, 1904-19166 The Battle for Whiteness: Making Whites in a White Man's Country, 1916-1924; Epilogue: Newtown: Unsettling Oklahoma, Unsettling America; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
