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Black Cherokee
by Antonio Michael Downing
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Synopsis
Betty
meets Queenie in a courageous debut novel about a mixed-race Black girl fighting for recognition in a Cherokee Indian community that refuses to accept her ancestry as legitimate.Ophelia Blue Rivers is the specificity of her circumstance. She’s not ...
Betty
meets Queenie in a courageous debut novel about a mixed-race Black girl fighting for recognition in a Cherokee Indian community that refuses to accept her ancestry as legitimate.
Ophelia Blue Rivers is the specificity of her circumstance. She’s not just mixed in the American binary sense of being a racial amalgamation of two races; she’s a mix of two of the distinct racial identities that make up the politics of this continent. She’s Black and she is Native American, raised by her grandmother who is a Black descendent of Cherokee freedmen.
A history as rich as it is complicated, Cherokee freedmen were formerly enslaved Africans once owned by Cherokee elites. After Emancipation as well as the Trail of Tears, these former slaves were freed but their belonging to the Cherokee nation remained a point of controversy. Can people who once belonged to another people who were displaced claim birthright to that heritage?
An ageless story of self-discovery set in contemporary 1990s South Carolina, Antonio Michael Downing uses Ophelia’s search for home and family to dramatize what it means to belong to a people when the terms of that belonging come at such a high price.
As she finds her way ghosts return, patterns repeat, myths become reality, and the lush southern landscape flows on like time itself.
Ophelia Blue Rivers is the specificity of her circumstance. She’s not just mixed in the American binary sense of being a racial amalgamation of two races; she’s a mix of two of the distinct racial identities that make up the politics of this continent. She’s Black and she is Native American, raised by her grandmother who is a Black descendent of Cherokee freedmen.
A history as rich as it is complicated, Cherokee freedmen were formerly enslaved Africans once owned by Cherokee elites. After Emancipation as well as the Trail of Tears, these former slaves were freed but their belonging to the Cherokee nation remained a point of controversy. Can people who once belonged to another people who were displaced claim birthright to that heritage?
An ageless story of self-discovery set in contemporary 1990s South Carolina, Antonio Michael Downing uses Ophelia’s search for home and family to dramatize what it means to belong to a people when the terms of that belonging come at such a high price.
As she finds her way ghosts return, patterns repeat, myths become reality, and the lush southern landscape flows on like time itself.
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