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The color of the land : race, nation, and the politics of landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929
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- Creator
- David A. Chang
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- [xiii], 293 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0807895768, 0807833657, 9780807871065, 0807871060, 9781469604398, 9780807833650, 1469604396, 9780807895764
- OCLC
- ocn593326999, ocn424454927
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-276) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- 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.