The color of the land: race, nation, and the politics of landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929

Introduction : Oklahoma as America

Owning and being owned : property, slavery, and Creek nationhood to 1865

An equal interest in the soil : small-scale farming and the work of nationhood, 1866-1889

Raw country and Jeffersonian dreams : the racial politics of allotment

Policy and the making of landlords and tenants : allotment, landlessness, and Creek politics, 1906-1920s

We were Negroes then : political programs, landownership, and Black racial coalescence, 1904-1916

The battle for whiteness : making whites in a white man's country, 1916-1924

Epilogue : Newtown : unsettling Oklahoma, unsettling America.