Lumbee Indian Histories: Race, Ethnicity, and Indian Identity in the Southern United States - Hardcover

Sider, Gerald M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521420458 ISBN 13: 9780521420457

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

This book explores the dynamics of the struggle for racial and ethnic identities in the southern United States, focusing on the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina. The book is also a history of American Indian concepts and visions of history, starting with the contemporary period and with the perspectives of the Lumbee Indians, and working backward to the colonial period and to the major groupings of Indian peoples. The book addresses the key question of how differing interpretations of history cause traditionally oppressed peoples to continue their struggle. Lumbee Indian Histories is a part of a larger project, centred at the Max Planck Institut für Geschichte, in Gottingen, Germany, to create new methodological approaches to, and concepts for, an historical anthropology.

About this title

Book Description:

Gerald Sider explores the dynamics of the struggle for racial and ethnic identities in the southern United States, focusing on the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina. He provides a history of American Indian concepts and visions of history and shows how differing interpretations of history cause traditionally oppressed peoples to continue their struggle.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0521420458
• ISBN 13: 9780521420457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 335