Power in the blood [[electronic resource] ] : a family narrative / / Linda Tate

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791672203321
• Autore: Tate Linda
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2009
• ISBN: 0-8214-4346-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Collana: Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia
• Disciplina: 929/.20973
• Soggetti: Cherokee Indians - Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee Indians - Appalachian Region, Southern - Social conditions; Racially mixed people - United States; Cherokee women - Appalachian Region, Southern; Appalachian Region, Southern Biography; Appalachian Region, Southern Genealogy; Appalachian Region, Southern Race relations; Appalachian Region, Southern Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Author's Note; Linda's Story 1988-1993; Louisiana's Story 1902; Gallery; Linda's Story 1964-1981; Fannie's Story 1963; Linda's Story 1966-1998; Epilogue; Afterword; References and Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative traces Linda Tate's journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives. In her search for the truth of her own past, Tate scoured archives, libraries, and courthouses throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Illinois, and Missouri, visited numerous cemeteries, and combed through census records, marriage records, court cases, local histories, old maps, and photographs. As she began to locate distant relatives - fifth, sixth,