| The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 Contributor(s): Chang, David A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807871060 ISBN-13: 9780807871065 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $35.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi - History | Native American - Social Science | Minority Studies |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 2009027708 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.14" W x 9.22" (0.99 lbs) 308 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Geographic Orientation - Oklahoma - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, the transformation of the Creeks' enslaved black population into landed black Creek citizens after the Civil War, the imposition of statehood and private landownership at the turn of the twentieth century, and the entrenchment of a sharecropping economy and white supremacy in the following decades. In struggles over land, wealth, and power, Oklahomans actively defined and redefined what it meant to be Native American, African American, or white. By telling this story, David Chang contributes to the history of racial construction and nationalism as well as to southern, western, and Native American history. |
Contributor Bio(s): Chang, David A.: - David A. Chang is assistant professor of history at the University of Minnesota. |