That the blood stay pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the predicament of race and identity in Virginia

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Acknowledgments Foreword Author's Note Introduction Part 1: Historicizing Black--Indian Relations in Virginia Prologue: Lingering at the Crossroads: African-Native American History and Kinship Lineage in Armstrong Archer's A Compendium on Slavery 1. Notes on the State of Virginia: Jeffersonian Thought and the Rise of Racial Purity Ideology in the Eighteenth Century 2. Redefining Race and Identity: The Indian-Negro Confusion and the Changing State of Black-Indian Relations in the Nineteenth Century 3. Race Purity and the Law: The Racial Integrity Act and Policing Black/Indian Identity in the Twentieth Century 4. Denying Blackness: Anthropological Advocacy and the Remaking of the Virginia Indians (The Other Twentieth Century Project) Part 2: Black-Indian Relations in the Present State of Virginia 5. Beyond Black and White: Afro-Indian Identity in the case of Loving V. Virginia 6. The Racial Integrity Fight: Confrontations of Race and Identity In Charles City County, Virginia 7. Nottoway Indians, Afro-Indian Identity, and the Contemporary Dilemma of State Recognition Epilogue: Afro-Indian Peoples of Virginia: The Indelible Thread of Black and Red Appendix: Racial Integrity Act Text Notes Selected Bibliography Index