The color of the land
Subtitle: race, nation, and the politics of landownership in Oklahoma, 1866-1929
By: David A. Chang.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807833650; 9780807871065
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; Whites -- Land tenure -- Oklahoma -- History; Oklahoma -- Race relations -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Oklahoma as America; title: Owning and being owned : property, slavery, and Creek nationhood to 1865; title: An equal interest in the soil : small-scale farming and the work of nationhood, 1866-1889; title: Raw country and Jeffersonian dreams : the racial politics of allotment; title: Policy and the making of landlords and tenants : allotment, landlessness, and Creek politics, 1906-1920s; title: We were Negroes then : political programs, landownership, and Black racial coalescence, 1904-1916; title: The battle for whiteness : making whites in a white man's country, 1916-1924; title: Epilogue: Newtown : unsettling Oklahoma, unsettling America.