That the blood stay pure : African Americans, Native Americans, and the predicament of race and identity in Virginia / Arica L. Coleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coleman, Arica L.

Series:

Blacks in the diaspora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Virginia--History.

African Americans.

Indians of North America--Virginia--History.

Indians of North America.

African Americans--Relations with Indians.

Racism.

History.

Ethnic relations.

Virginia--Ethnic relations--History.

Virginia.

Racism--Virginia--History.

Physical Description:

300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]

Contents:

Historicizing Black-Indian relations in Virginia

Prologue: Lingering at the crossroads : African-Native American history and kinship lineage in Armstrong Archer's A compendium on slavery

Notes on the state of Virginia: Jeffersonian thought and the rise of racial purity ideology in the eighteenth century

Redefining race and identity: the Indian-Negro confusion and the changing state of Black-Indian relations in the nineteenth century

Race purity and the law: the Racial Integrity Act and policing Black-Indian identity in the twentieth century

Denying blackness: anthropological advocacy and the remaking of the Virginia Indians

Black-Indian relations in the present state of Virginia

Beyond black and white: Afro-Indian identity in the case of Loving v. Virginia

The racial integrity fight: confrontations of race and identity in Charles City County, Virginia

Nottoway Indians, Afro-Indian identity, and the contemporary dilemma of state recognition

Epilogue: Afro-Indian peoples of Virginia; the indelible thread of Black and Red.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253010438

0253010438

OCLC:

840934523