Title Growing up with the country : family, race, and nation after the civil war / Kendra Taira Field.

Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
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Description	1 online resource (xxv, 225 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Series	The Lamar Series in Western History
	Lamar series in western history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-215) and index.
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Summary	'Growing Up with the Country' documents the migration of freedom's first generation out of the South and into the West after the Civil War. A narrative history, the text traces three of the author's ancestors and their successive migrations in the half-century after emancipation.
Contents	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One: "Intruder of Color": Freedom, Sovereignty, and Kinship in Indian Territory -- Two: Passing for Black: White Kinfolk, "Mulatto" Freedpeople, and Westward Migration -- Three: "He Dreamed of Africa": Kinship, Class, and Peoplehood -- Four: "No Such Thing as Stand Still": The Chief Sam Movement and the "African Pioneers" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
Subject	African Americans -- Oklahoma -- History -- 19th century.
	African Americans -- Oklahoma -- Relations with Indians -- History -- 19th century.
	African Americans -- Migrations.
	Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
	HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
	Migration, Internal. (OCoLC)fst01020741
	African Americans -- Migrations. (OCoLC)fst00799643
	African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
	African Americans -- Relations with Indians. (OCoLC)fst00799680
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Oklahoma. (OCoLC)fst01205031
Chronological Term	1800-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Field, Kendra Taira. Growing up with the country. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] 9780300180527 (DLC) 2017932063 (OCoLC)982651924
ISBN	9780300182286 (electronic book)
	0300182287 (electronic book)

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