Tag: Tiya Miles

  • Within the context of America’s slave society, such relations as that described by the star — and the larger system of cohabitation and concubinage, or involuntary monogamous sexual relations, in which they existed — have been the subject of much study by historians.

  • On The Cherokee Rose, Historical Fiction, and Silences in the Archives Process: a blog for american history 2015-05-26 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan Martha S. Jones Martha S. Jones is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan on…

  • Scholar’s debut novel ties black, Native-American history The Detroit Free Press 2015-03-22 Cassandra Spratling Tiya Miles got it honest. Straight from her grandmother’s garden. That knack for telling stories that pull at your heartstrings. “I’m one of those people who had a storytelling grandma,” says Miles. “We’d be in the garden or snapping peas on…

  • Now, Tiya Miles’s luminous but highly accessible novel examines a little-known aspect of America’s past—slaveholding by Southern Creeks and Cherokees—and its legacy in the lives of three young women who are drawn to the Georgia plantation where scenes of extreme cruelty and equally extraordinary compassion once played out.

  • Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom University of California Press February 2005 329 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520241329 Paperback ISBN: 9780520250024 Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association Frederick Jackson…

  • AAS 490: Special Topics in Black World Studies: Section 008: Race and “Black Indians” University of Michigan Winter 2013 Theme Semester Courses Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies This seven week mini course is a special winter 2013 offering for the LSA Theme Semester on Race. The…

  • Opinion: Black Americans must embrace true colors In America: You define America. What defines you? Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-12-15 Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Editor’s note: Historian and author Tiya Miles is a professor at the University of Michigan’s Afroamerican and African…

  • Who Gets To Decide Who Is Native American? Tell Me More National Public Radio 2012-08-09 Michel Martin, Host Rob Capriccioso, Washington Bureau Chief Indian Country Today Media Network Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan A controversy about identity has erupted in the race for…

  • Pain of ‘Trail of Tears’ shared by Blacks as well as Native Americans Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-02-25 Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Editor’s Note: Tiya Miles is chairwoman of the Department of Afro-American and…

  • Tribal Rights vs. Racial Justice: Was the Cherokee Nation’s expulsion of black Freedmen an act of tribal sovereignty or of racial discrimination? The New York Times Room for Debate 2011-09-15 Kevin Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Professor of Law Michigan State University Cara Cowan-Watts, Acting Speaker Cherokee Nation Tribal…