List of Illustrations Introduction James F. Brooks Part 1. Forging Relations 1. Intimacy and Empire: Indian-African Interaction in Spanish Colonial New Mexico, 1500-1800 - Dedra S. McDonald 2. "The English Has Now a Mind to Make Slaves of Them All": Creeks, Seminoles, and the Problem of Slavery - Claudio Saunt 3. "Colored" Seamen in the New England Whaling Industry: An Afro-Indian Consortium - Russel Lawrence Barsh 4. Strategy As Lived: Mixed Communities in the Age of New Nations - Daniel H. Calhoun Part 2. The Legacy of Slavery 5. Uncle Tom Was an Indian: Tracing the Red in Black Slavery - Tiya Miles 6. "Born and Raised among These People, I Don't Want to Know Any Other": Slaves' Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century Indian Territory - Celia E. Naylor-Ojurongbe 7. "African and Cherokee by Choice": Race and Resistance under Legalized Segregation - Laura L. Lovett 8. Blood Politics, Racial Classification, and Cherokee National Identity: The Trials and Tribulations of the Cherokee Freedmen - Circe Sturm Part 3. Complicating Identities 9. Blood and Culture: Negotiating Race in Twentieth-Century Native New England - Ann McMullen 10. A Most Secret Identity: Native American Assimilation and Identity Resistance in African America -Ron Welburn 11. Making Christianity Sing: The Origins and Experience of Lumbee Indian and African American Church Music - Malinda Maynor 12. Estrangements: Native American Mascots and Indian-Black Relations - C. Richard KingEpilogue: Seeing Each Other through the White Man's Eyes - Valerie J. Phillips Contributors; Index
James F. Brooks is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands.
"Collectively, these essays reveal that the relationship between being Indian and being black experienced throughout US history confounds earlier generalizations... Laura Lovett's 'African and Cherokee by Choice' and Ron Welburn's 'A Most Secret Identity' are alone worth the price of the book."-Choice Choice "Thoroughly researched, the essays are well-documented and scholarly without being weighed down by racial or historiographic jargon, a compliment to Brooks' careful editorial work... A fine book that opens doors and sheds light on some little-known aspects of our history."-W. David Laird, Southwest Book Reviews -- W. David Laird Southwest Book Reviews "This collection of essays on Indian-Black relations makes a powerful statement about the complexity and inscrutability of race in American society... Facile renderings of race in American history typically cast Whites as the perpetrators and people of color as allies in their victimization, but this volume jars us from that complacency by exposing racism's even more insidious effect of blurring the line between perpetrator and victim."-Nancy Shoemaker, New Mexico Historical Review -- Nancy Shoemaker New Mexico Historical Review "A welcome contribution to the growing scholarship on the fascinating connections between Natives and African Americans in North America... This book surpassed what it set out to do: complicate the color line and open our eyes to the difficulties inherent in Native-black interaction."-H-Net Reviews H-Net Reviews
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