Black, white, and Indian : race and the unmaking of an American family
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Published
New York : Oxford University Press, ©2005.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
ix, 300 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 26 cm
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Midwest City Library - Adult Nonfiction
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Published
New York : Oxford University Press, ©2005.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-290) and index.
Description
Tracking a full five generations of the Grayson family and basing his account in part on unprecedented access to the forty-four volume diary of G.W. Grayson, the one-time principal chief of the Creek Nation, Claudio Saunt tells not only of America's past, but of its present, shedding light on one of the most contentious issues in Indian politics, the role of "blood" in the construction of identity. Overwhelmed by the racial hierarchy in the United States and compelled to adopt the very ideology that oppressed them, the Graysons denied their kin, enslaved their relatives, married their masters, and went to war against each other. Claudio Saunt gives us not only a remarkable saga in its own right but one that illustrates the centrality of race in the American experience
Subjects
LC Subjects
Black people -- Southern States -- Relations with Indians.
Creek Indians -- Genealogy.
Creek Indians -- History -- Sources.
Creek Indians -- Mixed descent.
Family histories.
Grayson family -- History.
Interracial marriage -- Southern States -- History.
Southern States -- Genealogy.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
White people -- Southern States -- Relations with Indians.
Creek Indians -- Genealogy.
Creek Indians -- History -- Sources.
Creek Indians -- Mixed descent.
Family histories.
Grayson family -- History.
Interracial marriage -- Southern States -- History.
Southern States -- Genealogy.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
White people -- Southern States -- Relations with Indians.
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