Real Native Genius
How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians
By Angela Pulley Hudson
270 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 8 halftones, 1 map, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-2443-3
Published: September 2015 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-2444-0
Published: July 2015 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-4418-7
Published: July 2015
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Awards & distinctions
Evans Biography Award, Mountain West Center for Regional Studies, Utah State University
Weaving together histories of slavery, Mormonism, popular culture, and American medicine, Angela Pulley Hudson offers a fascinating tale of ingenuity, imposture, and identity. While illuminating the complex relationship between race, religion, and gender in nineteenth-century North America, Hudson reveals how the idea of the “Indian” influenced many of the era’s social movements. Through the remarkable lives of Tubbee and Ceil, Hudson uncovers both the complex and fluid nature of antebellum identities and the place of "Indianness" at the very heart of American culture.
About the Author
Angela Pulley Hudson is associate professor of history at Texas A&M University.
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“Highlights the significant social and demographic changes sweeping the nation in the antebellum period.”--Library Journal
“Real Native Genius is a brisk and intelligent examination of a complex story of ‘identity performance’.”--Patheos
"Sometimes an author produces work of such cultural insight and creative research that it demands special notice. That historian is Angela Pulley Hudson and that book is Real Native Genius.--Western Historical Quarterly
“[Hudson] joins the best scholars in Mormon history in placing her work in conversation with wider developments in the field. She is equally adept at feminist theory, the antebellum South, and Native American history.”--Reviews in American History
“With ingenious research, inventive interpretation, and an elegant style, Hudson relates an improbable, yet wholly American, gothic tale characterized by racial, religious, and gender ambiguities.”--Journal of Southern History
“I recommend this provocative volume not just to historians studying the themes covered within its pages, but also to anyone desirous of reading a captivating book that will open their eyes to people and events nearly forgotten, yet so odd, it’s almost hard to remember it’s not fiction.”--Association for Mormon Letters