| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Red Earth: Race and Agriculture in Oklahoma Territory. By Bonnie Lynn-Sherow. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. x, 186 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1324-2.)

Following the lead of the historian Angie Debo, who challenged the triumphal narrative of frontier history in Oklahoma by exposing white perfidy in the early Oklahoma land system that stripped Indians of their lands and tainted the Oklahoma political system and economy with corruption, Bonnie Lynn- Sherow expands the parallel history of racism that set the course of Oklahoma agriculture. Red Earth cultivates a beautifully nuanced description of the cultural ecology of Oklahoma territorial agriculture, digging up the racism that informed as much of Oklahoma's agricultural development as did the environment, science, technology, and the market economy. Oklahoma's diverse population of Kiowa, white settlers, and African Americans transformed Oklahoma agriculture, with unequal consequences for each group.

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