Miles / Holland Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds

The African Diaspora in Indian Country
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8840-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 388 Seiten

Combines histories of the complex interactions between blacks and Natives in North America with examples and readings of art that has emerged from those exchanges.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miles, Tiya

Holland, Sharon Patricia

Weitere Mitwirkende

Harjo, Joy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: “Not Recognized by the Tribe” / Sharon P. Holland ix

Preface: Eating out of the Same Pot? / Tiya Miles xv

Acknowledgments xix

Introduction: Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds / Tiya Miles and Sharon Patricia Holland 1

1. A Harbor of Sense: An Interview with Joy Harjo / Eugene B. Redmond 25

2. An/Other Case of New England Underwriting: Negotiating Race and Property in Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge / Jennifer D. Brody and Sharon P. Holland 31

3. Race and Federal Recognition in Native New England / Tiffany M. McKinney 57

4. Where Will the Nation Be at Home? Race, Nationalisms, and Emigration Movements in the Creek Nation / David A. Y. O. Chang 80

5. In Their “Native Country”: Freedpeople’s Understandings of Culture and Citizenship in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations / Barbara Krauthamer 100

6. “Blood and Money”: The Case of Seminole Freedmen and Seminole Indians in Oklahoma / Melinda Micco 121

7. "Playing Indian"? The Selection of Radmilla Cody as Miss Navajo Nation, 1997–1998 / Celia E. Naylor 145

8. "Their Hair was Curly": Afro-Mexicans in Indian Villages, Central Mexico, 1700–1820 / Deborah E. Kanter 164

9. Lone Wolf and DuBois for a New Century: Intersections of Native American and African American Literatures / Robert Warrior 181

10. Native Americans, African Americans, and the Space That Is America: Indian Presence in the Fiction of Toni Morrison / Virginia Kennedy 196

11. Knowing All of My Names / Tamara Buffalo 218

12. After the Death of the Last: Performance as History in Monique Mojica's Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots / Wendy S. Walter 226

13. Katimih o Sa Chata Kiyou (Why Am I Not Choctaw)? Race in the Lived Experiences of Two Black Choctaw Mixed-Bloods / Robert Keith Collins 260

14. From Ocean to o-Shen: Reggae Rap, and Hip Hop in Hawai'i / Ku'ualoha Ho'omanawanui 273

15. Heartbreak / Roberta J. Hill 309

Afterword / Robert Warrior 321

References 327

Contributors 345

Index 349

Über Autor(innen)

Tiya Miles is Assistant Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom.Sharon P. Holland is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity, also published by Duke University Press.