That the Blood Stay Pure
That the Blood Stay Pure

Author: Arica L. Coleman

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0253010500

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That the Blood Stay Pure traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia's effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans. Arica L. Coleman tells the story of Virginia's racial purity campaign from the perspective of those who were disavowed or expelled from tribal communities due to their affiliation with people of African descent or because their physical attributes linked them to those of African ancestry. Coleman also explores the social consequences of the racial purity ethos for tribal communities that have refused to define Indian identity based on a denial of blackness. This rich interdisciplinary history, which includes contemporary case studies, addresses a neglected aspect of America's long struggle with race and identity.

Blood Will Tell
Blood Will Tell

Author: Katherine Ellinghaus

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2017-08

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1496201604

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Blood Will Tell reveals the underlying centrality of “blood” that shaped official ideas about who was eligible to be defined as Indian by the General Allotment Act in the United States. Katherine Ellinghaus traces the idea of blood quantum and how the concept came to dominate Native identity and national status between 1887 and 1934 and how related exclusionary policies functioned to dispossess Native people of their land. The U.S. government’s unspoken assumption at the time was that Natives of mixed descent were undeserving of tribal status and benefits, notwithstanding that Native Americans of mixed descent played crucial roles in the national implementation of allotment policy. Ellinghaus explores on-the-ground case studies of Anishinaabeg, Arapahos, Cherokees, Eastern Cherokees, Cheyennes, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, Lakotas, Lumbees, Ojibwes, Seminoles, and Virginia tribes. Documented in these cases, the history of blood quantum as a policy reveals assimilation’s implications and legacy. The role of blood quantum is integral to understanding how Native Americans came to be one of the most disadvantaged groups in the United States, and it remains a significant part of present-day debates about Indian identity and tribal membership. Blood Will Tell is an important and timely contribution to current political and scholarly debates.

Pure America
Pure America

Author: Elizabeth Catte

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1953368050

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Longlisted for the 2022 PEN America John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, a "riveting and tightly argued" history of eugenics and its ripple effects, by acclaimed historian Elizabeth Catte. Between 1927 and 1979

Surviving Southampton
Surviving Southampton

Author: Vanessa M. Holden

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2021-07-13

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0252052765

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The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the region's multilayered human geography, Holden draws a fuller picture of the inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical locations but also their social relationships in space and time. Her analysis recasts the Southampton Rebellion as one event that reveals the continuum of practices that sustained resistance and survival among local Black people. Holden follows how African Americans continued those practices through the rebellion’s immediate aftermath and into the future, showing how Black women and communities raised children who remembered and heeded the lessons absorbed during the calamitous events of 1831. A bold challenge to traditional accounts, Surviving Southampton sheds new light on the places and people surrounding Americas most famous rebellion against slavery.

Never Pure
Never Pure

Author: Steven Shapin

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2010-06

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 0801894204

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Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To be human is to err, and we understand science better when we recognize it as the laborious achievement of fallible, imperfect, and historically situated human beings. Shapin’s essays collected here include reflections on the historical relationships between science and common sense, between science and modernity, and between science and the moral order. They explore the relevance of physical and social settings in the making of scientific knowledge, the methods appropriate to understanding science historically, dietetics as a compelling site for historical inquiry, the identity of those who have made scientific knowledge, and the means by which science has acquired credibility and authority. This wide-ranging and intensely interdisciplinary collection by one of the most distinguished historians and sociologists of science represents some of the leading edges of change in the scholarly understanding of science over the past several decades.

Pure
Pure

Author: Jennifer L Armentrout

Publisher: Bloom Books

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781464220678

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Alex longs for a normal life as a half-blood and grapples with her destiny as the second Apollyon, which is exacerbated by her infuriating connection to Seth and her forbidden feelings for pure-blood Aiden, all while she battles daimons and pures who threaten her survival.

Club Dead
Club Dead

Author: Charlaine Harris

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2003-04-29

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0441010512

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Bon Temps’s psychic waitress takes a dangerous road trip in the third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series—the inspiration for the HBO® original series True Blood. There’s only one vampire Sookie Stackhouse is involved with (at least voluntarily) and it’s Bill Compton. But recently he’s been a little distant—in another state, distant. Then his sinister and sexy boss Eric Northman tells Sookie where she might find him. Next thing she knows, she’s off to Jackson, Mississippi, to mingle with the under-underworld at Club Dead, a dangerous little haunt where the elite of vampire society can go to chill out and suck down some Type-O. But when Sookie finally finds Bill—caught in an act of serious betrayal—she’s not sure whether to save him...or sharpen some stakes.

Virginia Barbecue
Virginia Barbecue

Author: Joseph R Haynes

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013-04-23

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1439657874

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The award-winning barbecue cook and author of Brunswick Stew shares the flavorful history of the Old Dominion’s unique culinary heritage. With more than four hundred years of history, Virginians lay claim to the invention of southern barbecue. Native Virginian Powhatan tribes slow roasted meat on wooden hurdles or grills. James Madison hosted grand barbecue parties during the colonial and federal eras. The unique combination of vinegar, salt, pepper, oils and various spices forms the mouthwatering barbecue sauce that was first used by colonists in Virginia and then spread throughout the country. Today, authentic Virginia barbecue is regionally diverse and remains culturally vital. Drawing on hundreds of historical and contemporary sources, author, competition barbecue judge and award-winning barbecue cook Joe Haynes documents the delectable history of barbecue in the Old Dominion.

Pure Blood
Pure Blood

Author: Daiana Eckert

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2020-02-19

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 152552867X

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Jordon Rosser knows perfectly well who she is: a student at a nondescript, subpar community college in the microscopic town of Armado, Arizona. Jordon was sure her fantasy of a more exciting and fulfilling existence was just that, a fantasy. But when she and her lifelong friend, “Razz” Lords, learn of an unusual college in Phoenix that offers the opportunity for a formal education, her fantasy begins to take on shades of reality. At the school, Jordon and Razz meet two men with the same beautifully sculpted face but with souls as different as night and day. Taken in by the school’s mystical and unorthodox nature, Jordon and Razz allow their suitors to guide them into two diverse worlds that jeopardize their friendship and their future. The girls’ lives unravel with each passing day as the perfect people surrounding them are revealed to be not just professors and campus staff but also entities linked to the divisions between good and evil. As Razz and Jordon are introduced to a new and unusual reality, they struggle with the truths their families have hidden from them. Memories of other realms flood their minds, triggering internal struggles as each girl comes to grips with her true identity, a conflict that will test the boundaries of their friendship forever.