The color of the land : race, nation, and the politics of landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 / David A. Chang.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chang, David A.
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:
Creek people > Land tenure > Oklahoma > History.
Creek people > 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.
Physical Description:xii, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.