Blood Politics Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma

Name: Blood Politics Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
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ISBN: 9780520230972

ISBN-10: 0520230973

ISBN-13: 9780520230972

Edition: 2003

Authors: Circe Dawn Sturm

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Circe Sturm takes a bold and original approach to one of the most highly charged and important issues in the United States today: race and national identity. Focusing on the Oklahoma Cherokee, she examines how Cherokee identity is socially and politically constructed, and how that process is embedded in ideas of blood, color, 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…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/20/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 267
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Opening



Blood, Culture, and Race


Cherokee Politics and Identity in the Eighteenth Century



Race as Nation


Race as Blood Quantum


The Racial Politics of Cherokee Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century



Law of Blood, Politics of Nation


The Political Foundations of Racial Rule in the Cherokee Nation, 1907-2000



Social Classification and Racial Contestation


Local Non-National Interpretations of Cherokee Identity



Blood and Marriage


The Interplay of Kinship


Race, and Power in Traditional Cherokee Communities



Challenging the Color Line


The Trials and Tribulations of the Cherokee Freedmen



Closing


Notes


Bibliography


Index