The color of the land : race, nation, and the politics of landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 / David A. Chang.

Author/creator Chang, David A.
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Descriptionxii, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects
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.
Oklahoma--Race relations. --History.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009027708
ISBN9780807833650 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807833657 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780807871065 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0807871060 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E99.C9 C428 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold