Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Lowery, Malinda Maynor, author

Title Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South : race, identity, and the making of a nation / Malinda Maynor Lowery
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
©2010

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 339 pages) : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables
Series First peoples: new directions in Indigenous studies
First peoples (2010)
Contents Adapting to segregation -- Making home and making leaders -- Taking sides -- Confronting the New Deal -- Pembroke Farms : gaining economic autonomy -- Measuring identity -- Recognizing the Lumbee -- Conclusion : creating a Lumbee and Tuscarora future
Summary With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity in an era defined by racial segregation in the South and paternalistic policies for Indians throughout the nation. They did so against the backdrop of some of the central issues in American history, including race, class, politics, and citizenship. With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
English
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Print version record
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), Best First Book, 2010
Subject Lumbee Indians -- North Carolina -- Robeson County
Indians of North America -- North Carolina -- Robeson County
Group identity -- North Carolina -- Robeson County
Indians of North America -- North Carolina -- Robeson County
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
HISTORY -- Native American.
Group identity
Indians of North America
Lumbee Indians
Race relations
SUBJECT Robeson County (N.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject North Carolina -- Robeson County
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780807898284
0807898287
9781469604169
1469604167