The Color of the Land Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929

The Color of the Landbrings 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 narr...

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Main Author:	Chang, David A
Format:	eBook Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2010 University of North Carolina Press
Edition:	1
Subjects:	African Americans African Americans > Land tenure > Oklahoma > History Allotment of land Allotment of land > Oklahoma > History Creek Indians Creek Indians > Land tenure > Oklahoma > History Creek Indians > Oklahoma > Ethnic identity Ethnic identity Ethnicity HISTORY Indigenous populations Land Land tenure Land tenure > Social aspects > Oklahoma > History Native American Oklahoma Oklahoma > Race relations > History Political history Race relations Social aspects Social history Sociology Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) State & Local Territory United States Whites Whites > Land tenure > Oklahoma > History
ISBN:	0807871060, 9780807871065, 9780807895764, 0807895768, 0807833657, 9780807833650
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Front Matter Table of Contents Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: 1: Owning and Being Owned 2: An Equal Interest in the Soil 3: Raw Country and Jeffersonian Dreams 4: Policy and the Making of Landlords and Tenants 5: We Were Negroes Then 6: The Battle for Whiteness EPILOGUE: Notes Bibliography Index
Index Bibliography Notes Epilogue: Newtown: Unsettling Oklahoma, Unsettling America 6. The Battle for Whiteness: Making Whites in a White Man’s Country, 1916–1924 5. We Were Negroes Then: Political Programs, Landownership, and Black Racial Coalescence, 1904–1916 4. Policy and the Making of Landlords and Tenants: Allotment, Landlessness, and Creek Politics, 1906–1920s PART III: LIVING UNDER ALLOTMENT: Race and Property 3. Raw Country and Jeffersonian Dreams: The Racial Politics of Allotment PART II: ALLOTMENT: Dividing Lands, Nations, and Races 2. An Equal Interest in the Soil: Small-Scale Farming and the Work of Nationhood, 1866–1889 1. Owning and Being Owned: Property, Slavery, and Creek Nationhood to 1865 PART I: BEFORE ALLOTMENT: Land and the Making of Creek Nationhoods Introduction: Oklahoma as America Acknowledgments Contents Title Page, Copyright Cover
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Oklahoma as America -- PART I: BEFORE ALLOTMENT: Land and the Making of Creek Nationhoods -- 1 Owning and Being Owned: Property, Slavery, and Creek Nationhood to 1865 -- 2 An Equal Interest in the Soil: Small-Scale Farming and the Work of Nationhood, 1866-1889 -- PART II: ALLOTMENT: Dividing Lands, Nations, and Races -- 3 Raw Country and Jeffersonian Dreams: The Racial Politics of Allotment -- PART III: LIVING UNDER ALLOTMENT: Race and Property -- 4 Policy and the Making of Landlords and Tenants: Allotment, Landlessness, and Creek Politics, 1906-1920s -- 5 We Were Negroes Then: Political Programs, Landownership, and Black Racial Coalescence, 1904-1916 -- 6 The Battle for Whiteness: Making Whites in a White Man's Country, 1916-1924 -- Epilogue: Newtown: Unsettling Oklahoma, Unsettling America -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y