Title Reading territory : Indigenous and Black freedom, removal, and the nineteenth-century state / Kathryn Walkiewicz

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (vxii, 293 pages) Contents Introduction: Un-tied States -- Chapter One: The Boundary Line -- Chapter Two: Surveying the Swamp -- Chapter Three: Kansas Bleeds into Cuba -- Chapter Four: Sequoyah and the Stakes of Statehood -- Conclusion: Unmaking the State Summary "In her newest book Reading Territory, Kathryn Walkiewicz uses literary and historical methods to investigate how the borders of the US settler nation-state shifted throughout the long nineteenth century. She theorizes the roles of federalism and statehood in the production of US empire, particularly during nineteenth-century statehood movements. In the course of following these movements over time, from Georgia (1788) to Florida (1845), Kansas (1861), and Oklahoma (1907), Walkiewicz places Indigeneity and Blackness into a conversation with the rhetorics of states' rights in America. Throughout, she offers careful and nuanced readings of Indigenous and Black agency, conflict, alliance, and contestation as they relate to, and against, statist ideologies of white supremacy. Walkiewicz offers a nuanced, well-researched, and compellingly argued analysis of the ways that Indigenous and Black subjectivities have grappled with these complex relations between statehood and personhood as they sit within the context of an expanding American empire across the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed April 14, 2023) Subject Mass media -- Political aspects. African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century African Americans -- Relations with Indians -- History -- 19th century Indian Removal, 1813-1903. Five Civilized Tribes -- Land tenure. Five Civilized Tribes -- Government relations -- History -- 19th century States' rights (American politics) -- History -- 19th century Settler colonialism -- United States -- History -- 19th century SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies Territorial expansion States' rights (American politics) Settler colonialism Race relations Mass media -- Political aspects Five Civilized Tribes -- Land tenure Five Civilized Tribes -- Government relations African Americans -- Social conditions African Americans -- Relations with Indians SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2022035685 ISBN 1469672979 9781469672977

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