Kendra Taira Field
Biographic Data
| ID | 3959039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kendra Taira Field |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kendra Taira |
| FAMILY NAME | Field |
| SIGNATURE | FIELD K T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"Do Bana Coba, Gene Me, Gene Me!": W.E.B. Du Bois and the Genealogical Quest
Talk One Thing: Writing Family History in an Afro-Native World
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 dr…
The Privilege of Family History
This article situates the recent phenomenon of historians writing openly about their own familial and kin networks. After a brief discussion of the evolution of family history as a scholarly field, this article foregrounds the experiences and words of a number of African Americans who engaged in a diverse range of historical, genealogical, archival, and memorial "family history" work over the last two centuries. In the context of slavery, I appro…
Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era. By Darnella Davis
Booker T. Washington in American Memory
Book Review| July 01 2019 Booker T. Washington in American Memory Booker T. Washington in American Memory. By Kenneth M. Hamilton. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. 250 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Kendra T. Field Kendra T. Field Tufts University Kendra T. Field is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University. Field is the author of…
Growing up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War
Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War
Growing Up with the Country documents the migration of freedom’s first generation out of the South and into the West after the Civil War. A narrative history, the book traces three of the author’s ancestors and their successive migrations in the half-century after emancipation. Between 1865 and 1915, tens of thousands of former slaves sought freedom through a series of experiments in land ownership, town building, and emigration that spanned the …
Real Native Genius: How an Ex-slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians
Angela Pulley Hudson's Real Native Genius narrates the lives and careers of Okah Tubbee and Laah Ceil, “a fascinating antebellum couple” who performed as Indians across nineteenth-century North America (p. 1). Against the backdrop of slavery and colonization, “intertwining the lives and fates of Native, European, and African-descended people,” Hudson employs Tubbee's and Ceil's intersecting biographies to illustrate both the centrality of Indian-…
Introduction: African American Migration and Mobility After the Civil War, 1865-1915
Master of Ceremonies: The World of Peter Biggs in Civil War-Era Los Angeles
This article reconstructs the life and times of Peter Biggs, a free African American man in 1850s and 1860s Los Angeles, revealing the social and economic niche that he fashioned between the U.S.-Mexican War and the Civil War. Biggs’s little-known biography illuminates a forgotten moment in the temporal and spatial history of American racial construction. In April 1865, a group of pro-Confederate Angelenos was arrested for celebrating Abraham Lin…
No Such Thing as Stand Still: Migration and Geopolitics in African American History
In 1916 twenty-year-old Lomie Davis lost her father, Elic Davis. Born enslaved on the brink of emancipation in Mississippi, Alexander “Elic” Davis grew up watching men and women of his parents' generation move from plantation to plantation, from country to town, using their newfound freedom to search for, in Nell Painter's words, “real freedom.” As an adolescent, he witnessed the removal of federal troops from the South, the brisk evaporation of …
The Violence of Family Formation: Enslaved Families and Reproductive Labor in the Marketplace
The Violence of Family Formation: Enslaved Families and Reproductive Labor in the Marketplace Kendra Field (bio) Heather Andrea Williams. Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery. Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. xiii + 251pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00. Gregory D. Smithers. Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History. Jacksonville: University Press of…
No Such Thing as Stand Still: Migration and Geopolitics in African American History
In 1916 twenty-year-old Lomie Davis lost her father, Elic Davis. Born enslaved on the brink of emancipation in Mississippi, Alexander “Elic” Davis grew up watching men and women of his parents' generation move from plantation to plantation, from country to town, using their newfound freedom to search for, in Nell Painter's words, “real freedom.” As an adolescent, he witnessed the removal of federal troops from the South, the brisk evaporation of …
The Violence of Family Formation: Enslaved Families and Reproductive Labor in the Marketplace
The Violence of Family Formation: Enslaved Families and Reproductive Labor in the Marketplace Kendra Field (bio) Heather Andrea Williams. Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery. Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. xiii + 251pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00. Gregory D. Smithers. Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History. Jacksonville: University Press of…
No Such Thing as Stand Still: Migration and Geopolitics in African American History
In 1916 twenty-year-old Lomie Davis lost her father, Elic Davis. Born enslaved on the brink of emancipation in Mississippi, Alexander “Elic” Davis grew up watching men and women of his parents' generation move from plantation to plantation, from country to town, using their newfound freedom to search for, in Nell Painter's words, “real freedom.” As an adolescent, he witnessed the removal of federal troops from the South, the brisk evaporation of …
Master of Ceremonies: The World of Peter Biggs in Civil War-Era Los Angeles
This article reconstructs the life and times of Peter Biggs, a free African American man in 1850s and 1860s Los Angeles, revealing the social and economic niche that he fashioned between the U.S.-Mexican War and the Civil War. Biggs’s little-known biography illuminates a forgotten moment in the temporal and spatial history of American racial construction. In April 1865, a group of pro-Confederate Angelenos was arrested for celebrating Abraham Lin…
Real Native Genius: How an Ex-slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians
Angela Pulley Hudson's Real Native Genius narrates the lives and careers of Okah Tubbee and Laah Ceil, “a fascinating antebellum couple” who performed as Indians across nineteenth-century North America (p. 1). Against the backdrop of slavery and colonization, “intertwining the lives and fates of Native, European, and African-descended people,” Hudson employs Tubbee's and Ceil's intersecting biographies to illustrate both the centrality of Indian-…
Introduction: African American Migration and Mobility After the Civil War, 1865-1915
Growing up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War
Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War
Growing Up with the Country documents the migration of freedom’s first generation out of the South and into the West after the Civil War. A narrative history, the book traces three of the author’s ancestors and their successive migrations in the half-century after emancipation. Between 1865 and 1915, tens of thousands of former slaves sought freedom through a series of experiments in land ownership, town building, and emigration that spanned the …
Booker T. Washington in American Memory
Book Review| July 01 2019 Booker T. Washington in American Memory Booker T. Washington in American Memory. By Kenneth M. Hamilton. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. 250 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Kendra T. Field Kendra T. Field Tufts University Kendra T. Field is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University. Field is the author of…
Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era. By Darnella Davis
Talk One Thing: Writing Family History in an Afro-Native World
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 dr…
The Privilege of Family History
This article situates the recent phenomenon of historians writing openly about their own familial and kin networks. After a brief discussion of the evolution of family history as a scholarly field, this article foregrounds the experiences and words of a number of African Americans who engaged in a diverse range of historical, genealogical, archival, and memorial "family history" work over the last two centuries. In the context of slavery, I appro…
"Do Bana Coba, Gene Me, Gene Me!": W.E.B. Du Bois and the Genealogical Quest
History (10 works) · Race, History, and American Society (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Genealogy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · American History and Culture (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works)