Anthony W. Wood

Black Montana (eBook, PDF)

Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930

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Produktbeschreibung

2022 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize Finalist Toward the end of the nineteenth century, many African Americans moved westward as Greater Reconstruction came to a close. Although, along with Euro-Americans, Black settlers appropriated the land of Native Americans, sometimes even contributing to ongoing violence against Indigenous people, their migration often defied the goals of settler states in the American West. In Black Montana Anthony W. Wood explores the entanglements of race, settler colonialism, and the emergence of state and regional identity in the American West during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By producing conditions of social, cultural, and economic precarity that undermined Black Montanans' networks of kinship, community, and financial security, the state of Montana, in its capacity as a settler colony, worked to exclude the Black community that began to form within its borders after Reconstruction.Black Montana depicts the history of Montana's Black community from 1877 until the 1930s, a period in western American history that represents a significant moment and unique geography in the life of the U.S. settler-colonial project.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496227737
• Artikelnr.: 72428299

Autorenporträt

Anthony W. Wood is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He worked as a historian for the Montana Historical Society on Montana’s African American Heritage Places Project.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface: Public History and the Birth of an Archive
Acknowledgments
Note on Terminology
Introduction: Colonial Erosion
1. The Golden West: Black Settlers to Montana, 1877–1917
2. Making Black Settler Space: Confronting the Colonial Color Line
3. Great Debates: Black Settler Politics in the New Age
4. Thinking with Magpies: Montana’s Conservation Movement and the Occlusion
of the Black Wilderness Experience
5. Colonial Kinships: Sexuality, the Family, and Anti-Miscegenation Law in
Montana
6. History among the Sediments: On the Entanglements of Race and Region
Epilogue: The Endurance of Black Montana
Appendix: Montana Homesteader Displacement Data following 1917
Notes
Bibliography
Index