That the blood stay pure : African Americans, Native Americans, and the predicament of race and identity in Virginia / Arica L. Coleman.

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Main Author: Coleman, Arica L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Series:Blacks in the diaspora
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Table of Contents:
  • Historicizing Black-Indian relations in Virginia
  • Prologue: Lingering at the crossroads : African-Native American history and kinship lineage in Armstrong Archer's A compendium on slavery
  • Notes on the state of Virginia: Jeffersonian thought and the rise of racial purity ideology in the eighteenth century
  • Redefining race and identity: the Indian-Negro confusion and the changing state of Black-Indian relations in the nineteenth century
  • Race purity and the law: the Racial Integrity Act and policing Black-Indian identity in the twentieth century
  • Denying blackness: anthropological advocacy and the remaking of the Virginia Indians
  • Black-Indian relations in the present state of Virginia
  • Beyond black and white: Afro-Indian identity in the case of Loving v. Virginia
  • The racial integrity fight: confrontations of race and identity in Charles City County, Virginia
  • Nottoway Indians, Afro-Indian identity, and the contemporary dilemma of state eecognition
  • Epilogue: Afro-Indian peoples of Virginia; the indelible thread of Black and Red.