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Growing Up with the Country : Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War / Kendra Taira Field.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Field, Kendra Taira, author.
- Series:
- Lamar series in western history.
- The Lamar Series in Western History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Migrations.
- African Americans.
- Oklahoma.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Oklahoma.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- The masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-winning scholar and descendant of the migrants Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field's epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom's first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyond the United States, Field traces their journey out of the South to Indian Territory, where they participated in the development of black and black Indian towns and settlements. When statehood, oil speculation, and Jim Crow segregation imperiled their lives and livelihoods, these formerly enslaved men and women again chose emigration. Some migrants launched a powerful back-to-Africa movement, while others moved on to Canada and Mexico. Their lives and choices deepen and widen the roots of the Great Migration. Interweaving black, white, and Indian histories, Field's beautifully wrought narrative explores how ideas about race and color powerfully shaped the pursuit of freedom.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One: "Intruder of Color": Freedom, Sovereignty, and Kinship in Indian Territory
- Two: Passing for Black: White Kinfolk, "Mulatto" Freedpeople, and Westward Migration
- Three: "He Dreamed of Africa": Kinship, Class, and Peoplehood
- Four: "No Such Thing as Stand Still": The Chief Sam Movement and the "African Pioneers"
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-300-18228-7
- OCLC:
- 1017098727
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