Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia : Powhatan People and the Color Line /

"Explores experiences and strategies of tidewater Virginia Indians, descendants of peoples of the seventeenth-century Algonquian Powhatan chiefdom, in maintaining, creating, and re-creating their identities as Native Americans from the 1850s through the Jim Crow era. Examines how tidewater Nati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feller, Laura J. (Laura Janet) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race relations.
Powhatan Indians.
Powhatan (Indiens) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Powhatan (Indiens) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Powhatan (Indiens) > Identite ethnique.
Powhatan Indians > History > 20th century.
Powhatan Indians > History > 19th century.
Powhatan Indians > Race identity.
Virginia > Tidewater (Region)
Tidewater (Virg. : Region) > Relations raciales.
Tidewater (Va. : Region) > Race relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "A Home in a Strange Land"
  • Virginia's 1924 "Racial Integrity" Law
  • Constructing Native Identities, 1865 to 1931
  • White Ethnographers and Salvage Ethnography
  • The Aftermath of the "Racial Integrity" Law, 1930s to 1950s.

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