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Book 6: Pocahontas's Daughters: Gender and Ethnicity in American Culture

 Book
Collection number: 6

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Cherokee Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections includes a large selection of periodicals from publications like the Cherokee Observer, The Cherokee Phoenix, The Cherokee Advocate, and The Journal of Cherokee Studies. It includes an extensive collection of books on Cherokee and Native American history and many binders of historical and genealogical materials as well as a selection of artifacts.

Dates

  • circa 1850-2023

Extent

From the Collection: 10 Linear Feet (5 small boxes of books. 3 large boxes of periodicals and newspapers. 19 large binders of misc. materials, 2 large folders of genealogical material, and artifacts and artwork. Note: approximates. )

Language

English

Table of Contents

Introduction: Gender and Ethnicity in American Culture, 3 1. A Case Study of American Indian Female Authorship, 12 2. Strategies of Authorship in American Ethnic Women's Fiction: Midwiving and Mediation, 31 3. Black Women Authors and the Harlem Renaissance, 48 4. Fathers and Founding Fathers: The Making of Little American Women, 71 5. "America is a lover's land": The Pocahontas Marriage, Part 1,97 6. Miscegenation and the Mulatto, Inheritance and Incest: The Pocahontas Marriage, Part II, 131 7. Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans as an Ethnic Text, 159 Afterword, 189 Bibliography, 195 Notes, 215 Index, 261

Repository Details

Part of the Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Valdosta State University Archives, Odum Library
1500 N. Patterson St.
Valdosta GA 30601 United States
7063728116
229-259-5055 (Fax)