Blood politics : race, culture, and identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma / Circe Sturm.
2002
KIG2000.A85 C8 S88 2002 (Mapit)
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Title
Blood politics : race, culture, and identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma / Circe Sturm.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Description
xviii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Formatted Contents Note
1. Opening
2. Blood, Culture, and Race: Cherokee Politics and Identity in the Eighteenth Century
3. Race as Nation, Race as Blood Quantum: The Racial Politics of Cherokee Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
4. Law of Blood, Politics of Nation: The Political Foundations of Racial Rule in the Cherokee Nation, 1907-2000
5. Social Classification and Racial Contestation: Local Non-National Interpretations of Cherokee Identity
6. Blood and Marriage: The Interplay of Kinship, Race, and Power in Traditional Cherokee Communities
7. Challenging the Color Line: The Trials and Tribulations of the Cherokee Freedmen
8. Closing.
2. Blood, Culture, and Race: Cherokee Politics and Identity in the Eighteenth Century
3. Race as Nation, Race as Blood Quantum: The Racial Politics of Cherokee Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
4. Law of Blood, Politics of Nation: The Political Foundations of Racial Rule in the Cherokee Nation, 1907-2000
5. Social Classification and Racial Contestation: Local Non-National Interpretations of Cherokee Identity
6. Blood and Marriage: The Interplay of Kinship, Race, and Power in Traditional Cherokee Communities
7. Challenging the Color Line: The Trials and Tribulations of the Cherokee Freedmen
8. Closing.
Summary
Focusing on the Oklahoma Cherokee, the author examines how Cherokee identity is socially and politically constructed, and how that process is embedded in ideas of blood, colour, and race. Not quite a century ago, blood degree varied among Cherokee citizens from full blood to 1/256, but today the range is far greater - from full blood to 1/2048. This trend raises questions about the symbolic significance of blood and the degree to which blood connections can stretch and still carry a sense of legitimacy. It also raises questions about how much racial blending can occur before Cherokees cease to be identified as a distinct people and what danger is posed to Cherokee sovereignty if the federal government continues to identify Cherokees and other Native Americans on a racial basis. Combining contemporary ethnography and ethnohistory, Sturm's sophisticated and insightful analysis probes the intersection of race and national identity, the process of nation formation, and the dangers in linking racial and national identities.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index.
Call Number
KIG2000.A85 C8 S88 2002
Language
English
ISBN
0520230965 (Cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520230965 (Cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520230973 (Paper ; alkaline paper)
9780520230972 (Paper ; alkaline paper)
9780520230965 (Cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520230973 (Paper ; alkaline paper)
9780520230972 (Paper ; alkaline paper)
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