Crossing waters, crossing worlds : the African diaspora in Indian country / edited by Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Miles, Tiya, 1970-
Holland, Sharon Patricia
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
African Americans > Relations with Indigenous peoples.
Black people > North America > Relations with Indigenous peoples.
Black people > North America > Migrations.
Black people > Latin America > Migrations.
Indigenous peoples > Mixed descent.
Ex-slaves of Indigenous tribes.
African diaspora.
Physical Description:xx, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword : "not recognized by the tribe" / Sharon P. Holland
  • Preface : eating out of the same pot? / Tiya Miles
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction : crossing waters, crossing worlds / Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland
  • A harbor of sense : an interview with Joy Harjo / Eugene B. Redmond
  • An/other case of New England underwriting : negotiating race and property in Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge / Jennifer D. Brody and Sharon P. Holland
  • Race and federal recognition in native New England / Tiffany M. McKinney
  • Where will the nation be at home? race, nationalisms, and emigration movements in the Creek nation / David A.Y.O. Chang
  • In their "native country" : freedpeople's understandings of culture and citizenship in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations / Barbara Krauthamer
  • "Blood and money" : the case of Seminole freedmen and Seminole Indians in Oklahoma / Melinda Micco
  • "Playing Indian"? the selection of Radmilla Cody as Miss Navajo Nation, 1997-1998 / Celia E. Naylor
  • "Their hair was curly" : Afro-Mexicans in Indian villages, central Mexico, 1700-1820 / Deborah E. Kanter
  • Lone Wolf and Du Bois for a new century : intersections of Native American and African American literatures / Robert Warrior
  • Native Americans, African Americans, and the space that is America : Indian presence in the fiction of Toni Morrison / Virginia Kennedy
  • Knowing all of my names / Tamara Buffalo
  • After the death of the last : performance as history in Monique Mojica's Princess Pocahontas and the blue spots / Wendy S. Walters
  • Katimih o sa chata kiyou (why am I not Choctaw)? race in the lived experiences of two Black Choctaw mixed-bloods / Robert Keith Collins
  • From ocean to O-Shen : reggae, rap, and hip hop in Hawai'i / Ku'ualoha Ho'omanawanui
  • Heartbreak / Roberta J. Hill
  • Afterword / Robert Warrior.