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

Title
The color of the land : race, nation, and the politics of landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 / David A. Chang.
Author
Chang, David A.
Publication
Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

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Description
[xiii], 293 p. : ill., maps, photos; 24 cm.
Alternative Title
Race, nation, and the politics of landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929
Subject
  • Creek Indians > Land tenure > History. > Oklahoma
  • Creek Indians > Oklahoma > Ethnic identity
  • Allotment of land > Oklahoma > History
  • Land tenure > Social aspects > History. > Oklahoma
  • African Americans > Land tenure > History. > Oklahoma
  • White people > Land tenure > History. > Oklahoma
  • Oklahoma > Race relations > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-276) and index.
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.
Call Number
Sc E 10-836
ISBN
  • 9780807833650 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0807833657 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780807871065 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0807871060 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2009027708
OCLC
424454927
Author
Chang, David A.
Title
The color of the land : race, nation, and the politics of landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 / David A. Chang.
Imprint
Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-276) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 10-836
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