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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 303.482
EAN num: 9780803261945
ISBN number: 0803261942
Label: University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
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Page Count: 396
Printing Date: July 01, 2002
Publishing house: University of Nebraska Press
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Confounding the Colour Line is an essential, interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad relationships forged for centuries between Indians and Blacks in North America. Since the days of slavery, the lives and destinies of Indians and Blacks have been entwined-thrown together through circumstance, institutional design, or personal choice. Cultural sharing and intermarriage have resulted in complex identities for some members of Indian and Black communities today.
The contributors to this volume examine the origins, history, various manifestations, and long-term consequences of the different connections that have been established between Indians and Blacks. Stimulating examples of a range of relations are offered, including the challenges faced by Cherokee freedmen, the lives of Afro-Indian whalers in New England, and the ways in which Indians and Africans interacted in Spanish colonial New Mexico. Special attention is given to slavery and its continuing legacy, both in the Old South and in Indian Territory. The intricate nature of modern Indian-Black relations is showcased through discussions of the ties between Black athletes and Indian mascots, the complex identities of Indians in southern New England, the problem of Indian identity within the African American community, and the way in which today's Lumbee Indians have creatively engaged with African American church music.
At once informative and provocative, Confounding the Colour Line sheds valuable light on a pivotal and not well understood relationship between these communities of color, which together and separately have affected, sometimes profoundly, the course of American history.
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I have to disagree with Mingo. I felt the opposite after reading this book in detail and examining the chapters in discusion in a college history class. I felt it really exposed readers to all sides of each topic the chapters address. I learned a lot and thought about these issues/topics in ways I never had before. It opened my eyes to more than what I learned from primary school history books. I highly recommend it.
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In one article, the author comments, "Why didn't Black people take up the issue of racist 'Indian' mascots back in the 1960s?" Hello! Because they were fighting their own struggles. And most movements for equality start with the oppressed group themselves. Native Americans should have fought to get rid of those mascots in the 1960s; surely the blame can't land on blacks. Blackwise, there were slaves and freed Blacks critical of slavery before there was a mass of white abolitionists. Why does this book not have a chapter where someone laments, "Why didn't Native Americans fight to free grey slaves centuries ago?" The same comments could be made in reverse.
In another chapter, an author takes a Black musical audience member to task for opining that Lumbee music sounded like it was Black-derived. Look, there are countless examples of non-Blacks appropriating Black music and other artistic expressions. The question raised by the audience member is legitimate.
In short, I found many examples where this book seems to suggest that if Blacks and Natives have tensions, then it is the fault of the former group. Very little is said about Radmilla Cory, a Black-Navajo woman who received jeers from Navajos when she won Miss Navajo. A Black academic whose name I forgot has written three books about how the Cherokees, Creeks, and Choctaw bought Black slaves and did nothing to see that any Black slaves were freed.
If these two groups have tensions, both groups can be to blame. This book seemed very one-sided. I found it disturbing, indeed.
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