Race and Culture: Writing the Ethnohistory of the Early South

• Published in: Ethnohistory Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 701 - 723
• Main Author: Perdue, Theda
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Durham, NC Duke University Press 01.10.2004; Duke University Press, NC & IL
• Subjects: American history; Anthropology; Blood; Classification; Colonial history; Cultural differences; Cultural identity; Cultural values; Culture; Ethnography; Ethnohistory; Ethnology; Historical source materials; History; Imagination; Intermarriage; Language history; Language usage; Latin American History; Multiracial people; Native and Indigenous Studies; Native North Americans; North America; North Amerindians; Race; Racial differences; Racial identity; Sources and methods; North America; United States of America; Southern states; Writing of history; Ethnohistory; South; Culture; Race

Although both Indians and non-Indians use the language of blood today, it is a language that has a history, one that scholars of the early South, in particular, should keep in mind. Even if they change the meanings of "mixed blood" and "full blood" to emphasize cultural rather th...