Title: The color of the land : race, nation, and the politics of landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 /
Authors: Chang, David A.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,
Year: 2010
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.
Abstract: The author brings together the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans and whites in Oklahoma to explore the way races and nations were created in conflicts over land ownership and control.
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.