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

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, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chang, David A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.