| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

"Mixed Blood" Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South. By Theda Perdue. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xiv, 135 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8203-2453-1.)

In this slim but elegant volume, Theda Perdue examines notions of "race as blood" in the Native American Southeast and leads us carefully through the complex landscape of Indian-white relations, which shifted dramatically through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Unlike many recent histories of native America that focus on war and diplomacy, Perdue reminds us that resistance often came from quieter quarters—many native households refused to accept the "civilizing" structures forced on them by white America. She skillfully deconstructs the ways that Indians defined, used, or ignored concepts of race; categories of difference based on kinship and cultural behavior gave southeastern tribes greater flexibility as they absorbed newcomers. During the eighteenth century in particular, white men who married into tribes gained access to native resources but more often conformed to Indian protocol than vice versa and tended to be marginalized because they had no formal clan affiliation. Instead, native women controlled land, even during the nineteenth century when the Cherokees took legal steps to limit the white population and to protect women's title to property.

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