Introduction : Colonial erosion -- The golden West : black settlers to Montana, 1877-1917 -- Making black settler space and the paradox of the color line -- Great debates : black settler politics in the new age -- Thinking with magpies : Montana's conservation movement and the occlusion of the black wilderness experience -- Colonial kinships : sexuality, the family, and anti-miscegenation law in Montana -- History among the sediments : on the entanglements of race and religion -- Conclusion & epilogue : the endurance of black Montana -- Appendix: Homestead research : Montana homesteader displacement following 1917
Summary
"Black Montana argues that the state of Montana, in its capacity as a settler colony, worked to exclude the black community that began to form inside its borders after Reconstruction"-- Provided by publisher
