Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country

Published by Duke University Press 2006

Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds

The African Diaspora in Indian Country

Edited by: Tiya Miles and Sharon Patricia Holland
With contributions by: Joy Harjo

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822388401

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds addresses an extremely important nexus in ethnic studies and cultural studies and demonstrates the indispensable contributions of relational and comparative study.”—George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger

“This collection is an important extension of a vital topic—historical and contemporary cultural and political relationships between Indian and African peoples—fully into the realm of African diaspora studies.”—James F. Brooks, editor of Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America

“Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland have brought together precision history, evocative criticism, and wrenching memoir and fiction to offer a compelling picture of the meeting grounds where black and Indian lives intertwine. So much more than a decentering of whiteness, this collection truly opens up new and exciting terrain.”—Philip J. Deloria, author of Indians in Unexpected Places

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword: ‘‘Not Recognized by the Tribe’’ Sharon P. Holland Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface: Eating out of the Same Pot? Tiya Miles Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
Introduction: Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. A Harbor of Sense: An Interview with Joy Harjo Eugene B. Redmond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3. Race and Federal Recognition in Native New England Tiffany M. Mckinney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
4. Where Will the Nation Be at Home? Race, Nationalisms, and Emigration Movements in the Creek Nation David A . Y. O. Chang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
5. In Their ‘‘Native Country’’: Freedpeople’s Understandings of Culture and Citizenship in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations Barbara Krauthamer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
6. ‘‘Blood and Money’’: The Case of Seminole Freedmen and Seminole Indians in Oklahoma Melinda Micco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
7. ‘‘Playing Indian’’? The Selection of Radmilla Cody as Miss Navajo Nation, 1997–1998 Celia E. Naylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
8. ‘‘Their Hair was Curly’’: Afro-Mexicans in Indian Villages, Central Mexico, 1700–1820 Deborah E. Kanter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
9. Lone Wolf and Du Bois for a New Century: Intersections of Native American and African American Literatures Robert Warrior Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
10. Native Americans, African Americans, and the Space That Is America: Indian Presence in the Fiction of Toni Morrison Virginia Kennedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
11. Knowing All of My Names Tamara Buffalo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
12. After the Death of the Last: Performance as History in Monique Mojica’s Princess Pocahontas and The Blue Spots Wendy S. Walters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
14. From Ocean to O-Shen: Reggae, Rap, and Hip Hop in Hawai‘i Ku ‘Ualoha Ho ‘Omanawanui Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
15. Heartbreak Roberta J. Hill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Afterword Robert Warrior Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 388
Illustrations
- Other: 7 illus, 1 table

eBook

Published: October 19, 2006
ISBN: 9780822388401