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Record Nr.

UNINA9910569298803321

Autore

Feller Laura J (Laura Janet)

Titolo

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia : Powhatan People and the Color Line / / Laura J. Feller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of Oklahoma Press, 2022

Norman : , : University of Oklahoma Press, , [2022]

©[2022]

ISBN

0-8061-9160-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

975.5004/97347

Soggetti

Race relations

Powhatan (North American people)

Powhatan (Indiens) - Histoire - 20e siecle

Powhatan (Indiens) - Histoire - 19e siecle

Powhatan (Indiens) - Identite ethnique

Powhatan (North American people) - History - 20th century

Powhatan (North American people) - History - 19th century

Powhatan (North American people) - Race identity

History

Virginia Tidewater (Region)

Tidewater (Virg. : Region) Relations raciales

Tidewater (Va. : Region) Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

"A Home in a Strange Land" -- Virginia's 1924 "Racial Integrity" Law -- Constructing Native Identities, 1865 to 1931 -- White Ethnographers and Salvage Ethnography -- The Aftermath of the "Racial Integrity" Law, 1930s to 1950s.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores experiences and strategies of tidewater Virginia Indians, descendants of peoples of the seventeenth-century Algonquian Powhatan chiefdom, in maintaining, creating, and re-creating their identities as Native Americans from the 1850s through the 'Jim Crow' era. Examines how tidewater Native individuals, families, and



communities positioned themselves as Indigenous Peoples, rather than Black or white, in an era when some white Virginians argued that Virginia's Indians were 'mulattoes' and 'colored people.'