{"id":41235,"date":"2015-05-27T01:44:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T01:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41235"},"modified":"2015-05-27T01:44:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T01:44:13","slug":"on-the-cherokee-rose-historical-fiction-and-silences-in-the-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41235","title":{"rendered":"On The Cherokee Rose, Historical Fiction, and Silences in the Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

On The Cherokee Rose, Historical Fiction, and Silences in the Archives<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Process: a blog for american history<\/a>
\n2015-05-26<\/p>\n

Martha S. Jones<\/a><\/strong>, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies
\nUniversity of Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nMartha S. Jones<\/small><\/p>\n

Martha S. Jones is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan on the faculties in Afroamerican and African studies, history, and law. She is also a codirector of the university\u2019s Program in Race, Law, and History. The author of the forthcoming <\/em>Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America and a coeditor of <\/em>Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women<\/a> (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), she is at work on a new book entitled \u201cRiding the Atlantic World Circuit: Slavery and Law after the Haitian Revolution.\u201d She is also an OAH Distinguished Lecturer<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Cherokee Rose<\/a><\/em>, the debut novel by historian Tiya Miles<\/a>, caught me in the middle of a longstanding argument. I had pre-ordered the book from its publisher John F. Blair<\/a>, and so it arrived unexpectedly, as if unsummoned. It was March, a busy moment in the term. Still, I stole time that Saturday, reading it nearly cover-to-cover in one sitting. I left the last chapter until the next day, just to savor the experience. Miles is my colleague at the University of Michigan, and that hints at why I\u2019d let my email pile up just to read a work of fiction. Generally, I\u2019m the sort that lets a stack of books accumulate for later summer reading. But there was more. As I said, I was trying to settle an argument and thought The Cherokee Rose<\/em> might help.<\/p>\n

Many of us know Miles for her award-winning works of history: Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family<\/a><\/em> (University of California Press, 2006), The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story<\/a><\/em> (University of North Carolina Press, 2012), and Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era<\/em> (also coming from UNC Press this fall). Miles\u2019 insight into the intimate dynamics of slavery at the crossroads of Native American and African American experience has won her professional accolades and an eager readership. In this sense, while The Cherokee Rose<\/em> is fiction, it is no sharp departure. Miles builds upon what she had already taught us, including her exploration of Georgia\u2019s Chief Vann House<\/a>, to provide a new vantage point from which to explain the past…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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