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The color of the land : race, nation, and the politics of landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 / David A. Chang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chang, David A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creek Indians--Land tenure--Oklahoma--History.
- Creek Indians.
- Creek Indians--Oklahoma--Ethnic identity.
- Allotment of land--Oklahoma--History.
- Allotment of land.
- Land tenure--Social aspects--Oklahoma--History.
- Land tenure.
- African Americans--Land tenure--Oklahoma--History.
- African Americans.
- White people--Land tenure--Oklahoma--History.
- White people.
- Oklahoma--Race relations--History.
- Oklahoma.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 Oklahom
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-9313-362-2
- 979-88-908839-4-0
- 1-4696-0439-6
- 0-8078-9576-8
- OCLC:
- 593326999
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