Black Montana by Anthony W. Wood PAPERBACK 9781496237484

Black MontanaSettler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 18771930\nAuthor(s): Anthony W. Wood\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9781496237484, 978-1496237484\nSynopsis\nFinalist for the 2022 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize\n\n Toward the end of the nineteenth century, many African Americans moved westward as Greater Reconstruction came to a close. Though, along with Euro-Americans, Black settlers appropriated the land of Native Americans, sometimes even contributing to ongoing violence against Indigenous people, this migration often defied the goals of settler states in the American West.\n\n In Black Montana Anthony W. Wood explores the entanglements of race, settler colonialism, and the emergence of state and regional identity in the American West during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By producing conditions of social, cultural, and economic precarit.