That the Blood Stay Pure African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia

Name: That the Blood Stay Pure African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia
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ISBN: 9780253010438

ISBN-10: 0253010438

ISBN-13: 9780253010438

Edition: 2013

Authors: Arica L. Coleman

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That the Blood Stays Pure traces the history and legacy of the common wealth of Virginia's effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans. Arica L. Coleman tells the story of Virginia's racial purity campaign from the perspective of those who were disavowed or expelled from tribal communities due to their affiliation with people of African descent or because their physical attributes linked them to those of African ancestry. Coleman also explores the social consequences of the racial purity ethos for tribal communities that have refused to define Indian identity based on a denial of blackness. This rich interdisciplinary…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/18/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Foreword



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



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 Recognition


Epilogue: Afro-Indian Peoples of Virginia: The Indelible Thread of Black and Red


Appendix: The Racial Integrity Act


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index