The Stay-In Weather Sale: 20% off select books
Used, New, and Out of Print Books - We Buy and Sell - Powell's Books
Cart |
|  my account  |  wish list  |  help   |  800-878-7323
Hello, | Login
MENU
  • Browse
    • New Arrivals
    • Bestsellers
    • Award Winners
    • Signed Editions
    • Digital Audio Books
    • See All Subjects
  • Used
  • Staff Picks
    • Staff Picks
    • Picks of the Month
    • Book Club Subscriptions
    • 25 PNW Books to Read Before You Die
    • 25 Books From the 21st Century
    • 25 Memoirs to Read Before You Die
    • 25 Global Books to Read Before You Die
    • 25 Women to Read Before You Die
    • 25 Books to Read Before You Die
  • Gifts
    • Gift Cards & eGift Cards
    • Powell's Souvenirs
    • Read Rise Resist Gear
    • Journals & Notebooks
    • Games
    • Socks
  • Sell Books
  • Blog
  • Events
  • Find A Store
McAfee Secure

Don't Miss

  • Looking Forward Sale
  • The Stay-In Weather Sale
  • Indiespensable 90:
    My Year Abroad
  • Our 2021 TBR List
  • Powell's Virtual Events
  • Oregon Battle of the Books

Visit Our Stores


Emily B.: Black History Month 2021: Black Women in Science (0 comment)
The books below are a starting point for delving into the scientific legacy of Black women around the world and for inspiring the next generation to follow in their footsteps...
Read More»
  • Rhianna Walton: Black History Month 2021: Rethinking the Classics (0 comment)
  • Rachel Marks: No Bull, Just Books: Recommendations for the Year of the Ox (1 comment)

{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##

Dangerous Subjects: James D. Saules and the Rise of Black Exclusion in Oregon

by Kenneth R. Coleman
Dangerous Subjects: James D. Saules and the Rise of Black Exclusion in Oregon

  • Comment on this title
  • Synopses & Reviews
  • Read an Original Essay

ISBN13: 9780870719042
ISBN10: 0870719041



All Product Details

View Larger ImageView Larger Images
$19.95
New Trade Paperback
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Cart
Add to Wishlist
QtyStore
1Local Warehouse

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments

Dangerous Subjects describes the life and times of James D. Saules, a black sailor who was shipwrecked off the coast of Oregon and settled there in 1841. Before landing in Oregon, Saules traveled the world as a whaleman in the South Pacific and later as a crew member of the United States Exploring Expedition. Saules resided in the Pacific Northwest for just two years before a major wave of Anglo-American immigrants arrived in covered wagons.

In Oregon, Saules encountered a multiethnic population already transformed by colonialism — in particular, the fur industry and Protestant missionaries. Once the Oregon Trail emigrants began arriving in large numbers, in 1843, Saules had to adapt to a new reality in which Anglo-American settlers persistently sought to marginalize and exclude black residents from the region. Unlike Saules, who adapted and thrived in Oregon’s multiethnic milieu, the settler colonists sought to remake Oregon as a white man’s country. They used race as shorthand to determine which previous inhabitants would be included and which would be excluded. Saules inspired and later had to contend with a web of black exclusion laws designed to deny black people citizenship, mobility, and land.

In Dangerous Subjects, Kenneth Coleman sheds light on a neglected chapter in Oregon’s history. His book will be welcomed by scholars in the fields of western history and ethnic studies, as well as general readers interested in early Oregon and its history of racial exclusion.

About the Author

Kenneth R. Coleman moved to Oregon’s Willamette Valley as a child, in the back of his family’s Buick rather than a covered wagon. He left a career in marketing and advertising with the intention of studying the philosophy of history, but instead became fascinated by the complicated colonial and racial history of the Pacific Northwest. He is the recipient of a MA in History from Portland State University and currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where he works as an independent historian, writer, and musician. Dangerous Subjects is his first book.

Kenneth Coleman on PowellsBooks.Blog

IMG: Kenneth Coleman “History is written by the victors.” This sublime-sounding adage had been uttered so often it seems self-evident. Yet it is clearly wrong. Even if one subscribes to the questionable categories of historical winners and losers, the vanquished have written plenty of history...

Read More»


4 1

What Our Readers Are Saying

Share your thoughts on this title!
Average customer rating 4 (1 comments)

`
Antonio Gonzalez , January 21, 2018 (view all comments by Antonio Gonzalez)
I had a great time reading this book. The subject of the book, James Saules, is intersectional in so many trends of American history that you actually get a pretty good survey of the period. His journey covers events from Virginia to the North East U.S. to Peru and the S. Pacific to the Pacific Northwest. Throughout his journey you learn a little about free black Americans, the whaling community, missionary culture, manifest destiny, indigenous people, the Hudson Bay Company and how that all came together in Oregon. The author did an amazing job considering how few sources on Saules exist. I think tracking Saules from the East coast of the US all the way to Peru and then up to Oregon was an accomplishment. The book also was helpful in explaining how the culture of Oregon changed from a multicultural fur trapping community where the indigenous people suffered but were still valued for their skills and knowledge to a settler culture where even missionaries just wanted the native peoples to go away and die. I think this is an important book for understanding the origins of Oregon and how racism evolved in the mid 19th century to a more rigid and exclusionary force. It was also interesting to watch how racism of against natives and black Americans was interwoven and then compounded so that black and native Americans together was considered more dangerous than either alone and allowed for more bigoted treatment of both groups.

Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No

report this comment




Product Details

ISBN:
9780870719042
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
10/15/2017
Publisher:
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages:
240
Height:
.60IN
Width:
5.90IN
Illustration:
Yes
Author:
Kenneth R Coleman
Author:
Kenneth R. Coleman

Ships free on qualified orders.
Add to Cart
$19.95
New Trade Paperback
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
QtyStore
1Local Warehouse
Used Book Alert for book Receive an email when this ISBN is available used.
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Instagram

  • Help
  • Guarantee
  • My Account
  • Careers
  • About Us
  • Security
  • Wish List
  • Partners
  • Contact Us
  • Shipping
  • Sitemap
  • © 2021 POWELLS.COM Terms

{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##