ISBN: 0820324531

On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men-including traders, soldiers, and government agents-sometimes married Native women. Children of th… Mehr…

On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men-including traders, soldiers, and government agents-sometimes married Native women. Children of these unions were known by whites as "half-breeds." The Indian societies into which they were born, however, had no corresponding concepts of race or "blood." Moreover, counter to European customs and laws, Native lineage was traced through the mother only. No familial status or rights stemmed from the father."Mixed Blood" Indians 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' participation in tribal life, and the white cultural assumptions conveyed in the designation "mixed blood." 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.From the colonial through the early national era, "mixed bloods" were often in the middle of struggles between white expansionism and Native cultural survival. That these "half-breeds" often resisted appeals to their "civilized" blood helped foster an enduring image of Natives as fickle allies of white politicians, missionaries, and entrepreneurs. "Mixed Blood" Indians<

ISBN: 0820324531

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE In the last years of his life, Richard Wright, the fierce and original American novelist known for "Native Son" and "Black Boy, " wrote over… Mehr…

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE In the last years of his life, Richard Wright, the fierce and original American novelist known for "Native Son" and "Black Boy, " wrote over four thousand haiku. In "Richard Wright and Haiku, "Yoshinobu Hakutani considers Wright the poet and his late devotion to the spare, unrhymed verse that dwells on human beings' relationship to the natural world rather than on their relationships with one another, a strong departure from the intense and often conflicted relationships that had dominated his fiction.Wright was not the only famous American author to be attracted to the art of haiku. Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation novelist known for "On the Road" and "The Dharma Bums, " also explored the form and wrote many haiku. For guidance Wright and Kerouac both turned to the four-volume critical history and collection "Haiku" by R. H. Blythe. Wright went on to emulate such classic haiku poets as Basho, Buson, and Issa as well as the modernist Shiki."Richard Wright and Haiku" is presented in two parts. In the first, Hakutani traces the genesis and development of haiku in Japan, discusses the role of earlier poets, including Yone Noguchi and Ezra Pound, in the verse's development in Japan and in the West, and deals with both haiku and haiku criticism written in English. He goes on to describe how Wright acquired the theory and technique of haiku composition and offers a historical and critical study of Wright's haiku. Integral to Hakutani' 18th century,americas,anthropology,ethnic studies,history,humanities,modern (16th-21st centuries),native american,politics and social sciences,science and math Ethnic Studies, University of Georgia Press<