| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 293 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Chang 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. He argues that in struggles over land, wealth, and power, Oklahomans actively defined and redefined what it meant to be Native American, African American, or white |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index |
| Notes |
English |
|
Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 8, 2021) |
| Subject |
Creek Indians -- Land tenure -- Oklahoma -- History
|
|
Creek Indians -- Oklahoma -- Ethnic identity
|
|
Allotment of land -- Oklahoma -- History
|
|
Land tenure -- Social aspects -- Oklahoma -- History
|
|
African Americans -- Land tenure -- Oklahoma -- History
|
|
White people -- Land tenure -- Oklahoma -- History
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
|
|
African Americans -- Land tenure
|
|
Allotment of land
|
|
Creek Indians -- Land tenure
|
|
Land tenure -- Social aspects
|
|
Race relations
|
| SUBJECT |
Oklahoma -- Race relations -- History
|
| Subject |
Oklahoma
|
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
|
|
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| LC no. |
2009027708 |
| ISBN |
9780807895764 |
|
0807895768 |
|
9781469604398 |
|
1469604396 |
|
