The color of the land
Subtitle: race, nation, and the politics of landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929
By: David A. Chang
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780807833650; 9780807871065; 9780807895764
Other titles: Race, nation, and the politics of landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-276) 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.