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David J. Silverman - Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America - 9780801444777 - V9780801444777
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Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America

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Description for Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 581.

New England Indians created the multitribal Brothertown and Stockbridge communities during the eighteenth century with the intent of using Christianity and civilized reforms to cope with white expansion. In Red Brethren, David J. Silverman considers the stories of these communities and argues that Indians in early America were racial thinkers in their own right and that indigenous people rallied together as Indians not only in the context of violent resistance but also in campaigns to adjust peacefully to white dominion. All too often, the Indians discovered that their many concessions to white demands earned them no relief.

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Red Brethren traces the evolution of Indian ideas about race under this relentless pressure. In the early seventeenth century, indigenous people did not conceive of themselves as Indian. They sharpened their sense of Indian identity as they realized that Christianity would not bridge their many differences with whites, and as they fought to keep blacks out of their communities. The stories of Brothertown and Stockbridge shed light on the dynamism of Indians' own racial history and the place of Indians in the racial history of early America.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801444777
SKU
V9780801444777
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About David J. Silverman
David J. Silverman is Professor of History at George Washington University. He is the coauthor of Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts, also from Cornell, and author of Faith and Boundaries.

Reviews for Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America
By examining the origin and development of race consciousness among the Brothertowns and Stockbridges, David J. Silverman opens a window onto Native explanations of colonialism and its discontents for Indian peoples.... Red Brethren is a concise, well-researched, passionately written case study of the formation of racial identity among two Native groups. Silverman suggests that these northeastern Alongonquian communities' racial identities ... Read more

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