A Reply to Saunt Et Al

A brief reply to the comments of Claudio Saunt et al on the article, Rethinking Race & Culture in the Early South, agrees with their criticisms about the central role of slavery in southeastern Indian societies. It is pointed out that this topic was discussed in earlier works that this article w...

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Published inEthnohistory Vol. 53; no. 2; p. 406
Main Author Perdue, Theda
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Duke University Press 01.04.2006
Subjects
American Indians
Amerindians
Anthropology
Culture
Ethnohistory
History
Ideologies
Latin American History
Native and Indigenous Studies
Race
Slavery
Southern States
U.S.A
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Summary:A brief reply to the comments of Claudio Saunt et al on the article, Rethinking Race & Culture in the Early South, agrees with their criticisms about the central role of slavery in southeastern Indian societies. It is pointed out that this topic was discussed in earlier works that this article was an extension of. This essay focused on how history has whitewashed native societies by assigning cultural change to Indian people of European ancestry. Most southeastern Indians did not think of these mixed-blood tribal members as anything other than Indians; however, enemies of southern Indians used race to construct them as inauthentic in order to discredit their leadership. Many subsequent scholars have adopted that language as a category of analysis which left the impression that the basis for the economic, intellectual, & political achievements of native leaders was their European ancestry. It is maintained that this kind of racial ideology justified slavery & segregation. J. Lindroth
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ISSN:0014-1801
1527-5477
DOI:10.1215/00141801-53-2-406