"Mixed Blood" Indians Reconsidered: Race and Culture in the Early South

The Center for Ideas and Society presents: Theda Perdue

Date: May 13, 2003
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: HMNSS 1500

This lecture challenges interpretations of southern Indian history based on racial categories by examining the cultural diversity of individuals described as "mixed bloods."

Theda Perdue is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds the Ph.D. in history from the University of Georgia, and she previously taught at Western Carolina University, Clemson University, and the University of Kentucky. Her publications include Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1865 (1979), Native Carolinians (1985), Southern Women: Histories and Identities (1992), Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 (1998), The Columbia Guide to American Indians in the Southeast (2001) and "Mixed Blood" Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South (2002). She is a fellow of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for the Study of the American Indian at the Newberry Library and the Rockefeller Foundation. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Women’s History, Atlanta History, and Southern Cultures.

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