Growing up with the country : family, race, and nation after the civil war /

'Growing Up with the Country' documents the migration of freedom's first generation out of the South and into the West after the Civil War. A narrative history, the text traces three of the author's ancestors and their successive migrations in the half-century after emancipation.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Field, Kendra Taira (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Series:Lamar series in western history.
Subjects:
1800-1999
African Americans > Oklahoma > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Oklahoma > Relations with Indians > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Migrations.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 19th century.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Oklahoma > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Noirs américains > Oklahoma > Relations avec les Peuples autochtones > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Migration, Internal.
African Americans.
African Americans > Relations with Indians.
United States.
Oklahoma.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One: "Intruder of Color": Freedom, Sovereignty, and Kinship in Indian Territory
  • Two: Passing for Black: White Kinfolk, "Mulatto" Freedpeople, and Westward Migration
  • Three: "He Dreamed of Africa": Kinship, Class, and Peoplehood
  • Four: "No Such Thing as Stand Still": The Chief Sam Movement and the "African Pioneers"
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index

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