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Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation After the Civil War
Contributor(s): Field, Kendra Taira (Author)
ISBN: 0300248393     ISBN-13: 9780300248395
Publisher: Yale University Press
OUR PRICE:   $30.69  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2019
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | African American
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- History | United States - 19th Century
Dewey: 976.600
LCCN: 2017932063
Series: The Lamar Western History
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (0.75 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Cultural Region - Southwest U.S.
- Topical - Black History
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Chronological Period - 1900-1919
- Cultural Region - Mid-South
- Cultural Region - South
- Geographic Orientation - Oklahoma
 
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Publisher Description:
The masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-winning scholar and descendant of the migrants

Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field's epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom's first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyond the United States, Field traces their journey out of the South to Indian Territory, where they participated in the development of black and black Indian towns and settlements.

When statehood, oil speculation, and Jim Crow segregation imperiled their lives and livelihoods, these formerly enslaved men and women again chose emigration. Some migrants launched a powerful back-to-Africa movement, while others moved on to Canada and Mexico. Their lives and choices deepen and widen the roots of the Great Migration. Interweaving black, white, and Indian histories, Field's beautifully wrought narrative explores how ideas about race and color powerfully shaped the pursuit of freedom.