Fay A Yarbrough
Biographic Data
| ID | 2301508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fay A Yarbrough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fay A |
| FAMILY NAME | Yarbrough |
| SIGNATURE | YARBROUGH F A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7186-4920 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Civil War's Unfinished Business
The United States is not on the brink of a civil war, but the nation is dealing with the failure to reckon with the Civil War and its aftermath, namely the emancipation of 4 million enslaved people and what that meant for the United States socially and politically. The unaddressed racial and economic inequalities and the radical disagreement about whether they exist and/or how to ameliorate them are at the heart of current political divisions. Th…
Reclaiming Two-Spirits
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain
Reviewed by: Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States by Samantha Seeley Fay Yarbrough Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States. By Samantha Seeley. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Williamsburg, Va., and Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 368 pages. Cloth, ebook. Though the current public debat…
Choctaw Confederates
When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people—the tribe had owned enslaved Blacks since the 1720s. By the eve of the Civil War, 14 percent of the Choctaw Nation consisted of enslaved Blacks. Avid supporters of the Confederate States of America, the Nation passed a measure requiring all whites living in its territory to swear allegiance to the Confede…
Liberdade entre fronteiras
Este artigo examina como os ex-escravos dos indígenas Choctaw e no Território Indígena, em geral debateram e imaginaram a liberdade. Analisam-se as narrativas de escravizados coletadas pela Administração para o Progresso do Trabalho (Works Progress Administration - WPA). Essas pessoas frequentemente descreveram os proprietários e capatazes, bem como o anúncio da emancipação em linguagem muito semelhante à encontrada em narrativas de libertos dos …
Growing Up with the Country
In the decades after the Civil War, African-descended people were on the move. Formerly enslaved people sought reunification with long-lost family members, opportunities to own land and to exercise their political rights, and refuge from the constraints of a social order that increasingly relied on race rather than status to organize society. Kendra Field’s new book offers her own family as a lens through which to examine this “series of unbound …
Mikaëla M. Adams. Who Belongs? Race, Resources, and Tribal Citizenship in the Native South
In Who Belongs? Race, Resources, and Tribal Citizenship in the Native South, Mikaëla M. Adams explores how several southeastern tribes have answered the difficult, often fraught, questions surrounding tribal citizenship. How is it defined? Who can claim this legal identity? And perhaps most importantly, who determines the criteria for tribal citizenship? Adams finds that the Pamunkey, the Catawba, the Mississippi Band of Choctaws, the Eastern Ban…
The Payne-Butrick Papers
Book Review| January 01 2013 The Payne-Butrick Papers The Payne-Butrick Papers. Edited by William L. Anderson, Jane L. Brown, and Anne F. Rogers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. 928 pp. $150 (cloth). Fay A. Yarbrough Fay A. Yarbrough Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2013) 32 (2): 145–147. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.32.2.0145 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Faceb…
Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree
Book Review| April 01 2010 Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree: Alcohol and the Sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree: Alcohol and the Sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation. By Izumi Ishii. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xiv + 260 pp. Notes, index, and bibliography. $45 (cloth). Fay A. Yarbrough Fay A. Yarbrough University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Ameri…
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country Get access Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country. Edited by Miles Tiya Holland Sharon P.. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xx + 364 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, $84.95, cloth; $23.95, paper.) Fay A. Yarbrough Fay A. Yarbrough University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western …
Ties That Bind
Racial Thinking in the United States
Racial Thinking in the United States is a comprehensive reassessment of the ideas that Americans have had about race. This useful book draws on the skills and perspectives of nine scholars from the fields of history, sociology, theology, American studies, and ethnic studies. In thirteen carefully crafted essays they tell the history of the American system of racial domination and of twentieth-century challenges to that racial hierarchy, from mono…
Power, Perception, and Interracial Sex
MY FATHER'S NAME WUZ ROBERT STEWART. HE WUZ A WHITE MAN. My mother wuz named Ann. She wuz part Indian. Her father wuz a Choctaw Indian and her mother a black woman--a slave. (1) This is how Charley Stewart, a former slave, described his lineage. Stewart was not alone in claiming parents and grandparents of mixed racial heritage; there are many references to mixed-race ancestry in the interviews of ex-slaves collected by the Works Progress Adminis…
Beyond Black and White
Legislating Women's Sexuality
During the first half of the nineteenth century, the Cherokee Nation passed many laws to regulate marriage and sex. This essay first contemplates the gendered aspects of such laws by exploring the importance of Cherokee women's marital choices and official response to those choices. In particular, Cherokee women's choice of non-Cherokee marital partners, most frequently whites, and the concomitant introduction of outsiders into the Nation forced …
Power, Perception, and Interracial Sex
MY FATHER'S NAME WUZ ROBERT STEWART. HE WUZ A WHITE MAN. My mother wuz named Ann. She wuz part Indian. Her father wuz a Choctaw Indian and her mother a black woman--a slave. (1) This is how Charley Stewart, a former slave, described his lineage. Stewart was not alone in claiming parents and grandparents of mixed racial heritage; there are many references to mixed-race ancestry in the interviews of ex-slaves collected by the Works Progress Adminis…
Legislating Women's Sexuality
During the first half of the nineteenth century, the Cherokee Nation passed many laws to regulate marriage and sex. This essay first contemplates the gendered aspects of such laws by exploring the importance of Cherokee women's marital choices and official response to those choices. In particular, Cherokee women's choice of non-Cherokee marital partners, most frequently whites, and the concomitant introduction of outsiders into the Nation forced …
Legislating Women's Sexuality
During the first half of the nineteenth century, the Cherokee Nation passed many laws to regulate marriage and sex. This essay first contemplates the gendered aspects of such laws by exploring the importance of Cherokee women's marital choices and official response to those choices. In particular, Cherokee women's choice of non-Cherokee marital partners, most frequently whites, and the concomitant introduction of outsiders into the Nation forced …
Racial Thinking in the United States
Racial Thinking in the United States is a comprehensive reassessment of the ideas that Americans have had about race. This useful book draws on the skills and perspectives of nine scholars from the fields of history, sociology, theology, American studies, and ethnic studies. In thirteen carefully crafted essays they tell the history of the American system of racial domination and of twentieth-century challenges to that racial hierarchy, from mono…
Power, Perception, and Interracial Sex
MY FATHER'S NAME WUZ ROBERT STEWART. HE WUZ A WHITE MAN. My mother wuz named Ann. She wuz part Indian. Her father wuz a Choctaw Indian and her mother a black woman--a slave. (1) This is how Charley Stewart, a former slave, described his lineage. Stewart was not alone in claiming parents and grandparents of mixed racial heritage; there are many references to mixed-race ancestry in the interviews of ex-slaves collected by the Works Progress Adminis…
Beyond Black and White
Ties That Bind
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country Get access Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country. Edited by Miles Tiya Holland Sharon P.. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xx + 364 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, $84.95, cloth; $23.95, paper.) Fay A. Yarbrough Fay A. Yarbrough University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western …
Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree
Book Review| April 01 2010 Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree: Alcohol and the Sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree: Alcohol and the Sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation. By Izumi Ishii. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xiv + 260 pp. Notes, index, and bibliography. $45 (cloth). Fay A. Yarbrough Fay A. Yarbrough University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Ameri…
The Payne-Butrick Papers
Book Review| January 01 2013 The Payne-Butrick Papers The Payne-Butrick Papers. Edited by William L. Anderson, Jane L. Brown, and Anne F. Rogers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. 928 pp. $150 (cloth). Fay A. Yarbrough Fay A. Yarbrough Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2013) 32 (2): 145–147. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.32.2.0145 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Faceb…
Mikaëla M. Adams. Who Belongs? Race, Resources, and Tribal Citizenship in the Native South
In Who Belongs? Race, Resources, and Tribal Citizenship in the Native South, Mikaëla M. Adams explores how several southeastern tribes have answered the difficult, often fraught, questions surrounding tribal citizenship. How is it defined? Who can claim this legal identity? And perhaps most importantly, who determines the criteria for tribal citizenship? Adams finds that the Pamunkey, the Catawba, the Mississippi Band of Choctaws, the Eastern Ban…
Liberdade entre fronteiras
Este artigo examina como os ex-escravos dos indígenas Choctaw e no Território Indígena, em geral debateram e imaginaram a liberdade. Analisam-se as narrativas de escravizados coletadas pela Administração para o Progresso do Trabalho (Works Progress Administration - WPA). Essas pessoas frequentemente descreveram os proprietários e capatazes, bem como o anúncio da emancipação em linguagem muito semelhante à encontrada em narrativas de libertos dos …
Growing Up with the Country
In the decades after the Civil War, African-descended people were on the move. Formerly enslaved people sought reunification with long-lost family members, opportunities to own land and to exercise their political rights, and refuge from the constraints of a social order that increasingly relied on race rather than status to organize society. Kendra Field’s new book offers her own family as a lens through which to examine this “series of unbound …
Choctaw Confederates
When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people—the tribe had owned enslaved Blacks since the 1720s. By the eve of the Civil War, 14 percent of the Choctaw Nation consisted of enslaved Blacks. Avid supporters of the Confederate States of America, the Nation passed a measure requiring all whites living in its territory to swear allegiance to the Confede…
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain
Reviewed by: Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States by Samantha Seeley Fay Yarbrough Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States. By Samantha Seeley. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Williamsburg, Va., and Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 368 pages. Cloth, ebook. Though the current public debat…
Reclaiming Two-Spirits
The Civil War's Unfinished Business
The United States is not on the brink of a civil war, but the nation is dealing with the failure to reckon with the Civil War and its aftermath, namely the emancipation of 4 million enslaved people and what that meant for the United States socially and politically. The unaddressed racial and economic inequalities and the radical disagreement about whether they exist and/or how to ameliorate them are at the heart of current political divisions. Th…
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