Black Montana : settler colonialism and the erosion of the racial frontier, 1877-1930 /

"Black Montana argues that the state of Montana, in its capacity as a settler colony, worked to exclude the black community that began to form inside its borders after Reconstruction"--

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Main Author: Wood, Anthony W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Colonial erosion
  • The golden West : black settlers to Montana, 1877-1917
  • Making black settler space and the paradox of the color line
  • Great debates : black settler politics in the new age
  • Thinking with magpies : Montana's conservation movement and the occlusion of the black wilderness experience
  • Colonial kinships : sexuality, the family, and anti-miscegenation law in Montana
  • History among the sediments : on the entanglements of race and religion
  • Conclusion & epilogue : the endurance of black Montana
  • Appendix: Homestead research : Montana homesteader displacement following 1917.