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Autore |
Feller Laura J (Laura Janet) |
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Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia : Powhatan People and the Color Line / / Laura J. Feller |
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University of Oklahoma Press, 2022 |
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Norman : , : University of Oklahoma Press, , [2022] |
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©[2022] |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Disciplina |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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"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. |
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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 |
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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.' |
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