Talk One Thing: Writing Family History in an Afro-Native World

IF 0.4 4区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

SOUTHERN CULTURES Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.1353/scu.2022.0024

K. Field

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Abstract

Abstract:This article reflects upon the challenges of family history and genealogy in an Afro-Native context. Beginning with the author's own ancestors, it explores the urgency and specificity with which Afro-Native individuals documented their ancestry in Indian Territory at the turn of the twentieth century, and especially in the wake of the Dawes General Allotment Act. While the allotment process forced Native Americans into US land markets, it also drew misleading distinctions between Creeks, for instance, and freedpeople of the Creek nation—distinctions that shaped notions of family and family history, and ideas about race and nation, for generations to come. Amidst federal imposition of American racial categories, Afro-Native descendants continued the painstaking work of narrating their familial pasts on their own terms. "Writing about families," Amitav Ghosh notes, "is one way of not writing about the nation."

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谈论一件事:在非洲土著世界中书写家族史

摘要:本文反思了非洲土著背景下的家族史和家谱所面临的挑战。从作者自己的祖先开始，它探讨了非洲原住民在20世纪之交，特别是在《道斯一般分配法案》之后，在印第安领土上记录他们祖先的紧迫性和特殊性。在分配过程迫使美洲原住民进入美国土地市场的同时，它也在克里克人与克里克民族的自由人之间划出了误导性的区别——例如，这些区别塑造了后代对家庭和家族史的观念，以及对种族和国家的观念。在联邦强加的美国种族分类中，非洲土著后裔继续以他们自己的方式讲述他们家族的过去。“写家庭，”阿米塔夫·高什指出，“是不写国家的一种方式。”

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期刊介绍： In the foreword to the first issue of the The Southern Literary Journal, published in November 1968, founding editors Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and C. Hugh Holman outlined the journal"s objectives: "To study the significant body of southern writing, to try to understand its relationship to the South, to attempt through it to understand an interesting and often vexing region of the American Union, and to do this, as far as possible, with good humor, critical tact, and objectivity--these are the perhaps impossible goals to which The Southern Literary Journal is committed." Since then The Southern Literary Journal has published hundreds of essays by scholars of southern literature examining the works of southern writers and the ongoing development of southern culture.