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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Chang, David A., author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, [2010] [Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Company, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 293 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:	English
Series:	HeinOnline Indigenous peoples of the Americas: history, culture & law HeinOnline civil rights and social justice Indigenous peoples of the Americas: history, culture & law. Civil rights and social justice.
Subject:	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. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11904710

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Varying Form of Title:	Race, nation, and the politics of landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-276) and index. Description based on PDF title page, viewed July 9, 2019.
Other form:	Original 9780807833650 (cloth) 9780807871065 (pbk.)

Table of 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.

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