Crossing waters, crossing worlds : the African diaspora in Indian country / edited by Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miles, Tiya, 1970-

Holland, Sharon Patricia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Relations with Indigenous peoples.

African Americans.

Black people--North America--Relations with Indians.

Black people.

Black people--North America--Migrations.

Black people--Latin America--Migrations.

Indians of North America--Mixed descent.

Indians of North America.

Freed persons--Indian Territory.

Freed persons.

African diaspora.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds" explores the critically neglected intersection of Native and African American cultures. This interdisciplinary collection combines historical studies of the complex relations between blacks and Indians in Native communities with considerations and examples of various forms of cultural expression that have emerged from their intertwined histories. The contributors include scholars of African American and Native American studies, English, history, anthropology, law, and performance studies, as well as fiction writers, poets, and a visual artist. Essays range from a close reading of the 1838 memoirs of a black and Native freewoman to an analysis of how Afro-Native intermarriage has impacted the identities and federal government classifications of certain New England Indian tribes. One contributor explores the aftermath of black slavery in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, highlighting issues of culture and citizenship. Another scrutinizes the controversy that followed the 1998 selection of a Miss Navajo Nation who had an African American father. A historian examines the status of Afro-Indians in colonial Mexico, and an ethnographer reflects on oral histories gathered from Afro-Choctaws. "Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds "includes evocative readings of several of Toni Morrison's novels, interpretations of plays by African American and First Nations playwrights, an original short story by Roberta J. Hill, and an interview with the Creek poet and musician Joy Harjo. The Native American scholar Robert Warrior develops a theoretical model for comparative work through an analysis of black and Native intellectual production. In his afterword, he reflects onthe importance of the critical project advanced by this volume.

Contents:

Foreword : "not recognized by the tribe" / Sharon P. Holland

Preface : eating out of the same pot? / Tiya Miles

Acknowledgements

Introduction : crossing waters, crossing worlds / Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland

A harbor of sense : an interview with Joy Harjo / Eugene B. Redmond

An/other case of New England underwriting : negotiating race and property in Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge / Jennifer D. Brody and Sharon P. Holland

Race and federal recognition in native New England / Tiffany M. McKinney

Where will the nation be at home? race, nationalisms, and emigration movements in the Creek nation / David A.Y.O. Chang

In their "native country" : freedpeople's understandings of culture and citizenship in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations / Barbara Krauthamer

"Blood and money" : the case of Seminole freedmen and Seminole Indians in Oklahoma / Melinda Micco

"Playing Indian"? the selection of Radmilla Cody as Miss Navajo Nation, 1997-1998 / Celia E. Naylor

"Their hair was curly" : Afro-Mexicans in Indian villages, central Mexico, 1700-1820 / Deborah E. Kanter

Lone Wolf and Du Bois for a new century : intersections of Native American and African American literatures / Robert Warrior

Native Americans, African Americans, and the space that is America : Indian presence in the fiction of Toni Morrison / Virginia Kennedy

Knowing all of my names / Tamara Buffalo

After the death of the last : performance as history in Monique Mojica's Princess Pocahontas and the blue spots / Wendy S. Walters

Katimih o sa chata kiyou (why am I not Choctaw)? race in the lived experiences of two Black Choctaw mixed-bloods / Robert Keith Collins

From ocean to O-Shen : reggae, rap, and hip hop in Hawai'i / Ku'ualoha Ho'omanawanui

Heartbreak / Roberta J. Hill

Afterword / Robert Warrior.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-344) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822388401

0822388405

OCLC:

607774236