{"id":4517,"date":"2010-01-12T21:24:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T21:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4517"},"modified":"2013-02-06T21:53:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T21:53:54","slug":"mixed-blood-indians-racial-construction-in-the-early-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4517","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Blood Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugapress.uga.edu\/index.php\/books\/mixed_blood_indians\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Blood Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugapress.uga.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of Georgia Press<\/a><br \/>\n2005-03-28<br \/>\n60 pages<br \/>\nIllustrated, Trim size: 5.5 x 8.25<br \/>\nISBN: 978-0-8203-2731-0<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.unc.edu\/people\/faculty\/perdue.html\" target=\"_blank\">Theda Perdue<\/a><\/strong>, Atlanta Distinguished Term Professor of Southern Culture<br \/>\n<em>University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugapress.uga.edu\/index.php\/books\/mixed_blood_indians\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ugapress.uga.edu\/images\/ugapress\/books\/9780820327310.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men\u2014including traders, soldiers, and government agents\u2014sometimes married Native women. Children of these unions were known by whites as \u201chalf-breeds.\u201d The Indian societies into which they were born, however, had no corresponding concepts of race or \u201cblood.\u201d Moreover, counter to European customs and laws, Native lineage was traced through the mother only. No familial status or rights stemmed from the father.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMixed Blood\u201d Indians<\/em> looks at a fascinating array of such birth- and kin-related issues as they were alternately misunderstood and astutely exploited by both Native and European cultures. Theda Perdue discusses the assimilation of non-Indians into Native societies, their descendants\u2019 participation in tribal life, and the white cultural assumptions conveyed in the designation \u201cmixed blood.\u201d In addition to unions between European men and Native women, Perdue also considers the special cases arising from the presence of white women and African men and women in Indian society.<\/p>\n<p>From the colonial through the early national era, \u201cmixed bloods\u201d were often in the middle of struggles between white expansionism and Native cultural survival. That these \u201chalf-breeds\u201d often resisted appeals to their \u201ccivilized\u201d blood helped foster an enduring image of Natives as fickle allies of white politicians, missionaries, and entrepreneurs. <em>\u201cMixed Blood\u201d Indians<\/em> rereads a number of early writings to show us the Native outlook on these misperceptions and to make clear that race is too simple a measure of their\u2014or any peoples\u2019\u2014motives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed Blood Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South University of Georgia Press 2005-03-28 60 pages Illustrated, Trim size: 5.5 x 8.25 ISBN: 978-0-8203-2731-0 Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Term Professor of Southern Culture University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men\u2014including traders, soldiers, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,414,459,125,8,17,3015,20],"tags":[1790,463],"class_list":["post-4517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-family","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-theda-perdue","tag-university-of-georgia-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}