Alejandra Dubcovsky, "Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South" (Yale UP, 2023)
Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial South. In exploring their lives she rewrites early American history, challenging the established male-centered narrative.\nIn\xa0Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South\xa0(Yale UP, 2023),\xa0Dubcovsky reconstructs the lives of Native women\u2014Timucua, Apalachee, Chacato, and Guale\u2014to show how they made claims to protect their livelihoods, bodies, and families. Through the stories of the Native cacica who demanded her authority be recognized; the elite Spanish woman who turned her dowry and household into a source of independent power; the Floridiana who slapped a leading Native man in the town square; and the Black woman who ran a successful business at the heart of a Spanish town, Dubcovsky reveals the formidable women who claimed and used their power, shaping the history of the early South.\nBrandon T. Jett, professor of history at Florida SouthWestern State College, creator of the\xa0Lynching in LaBelle\xa0Digital History Project, and author of\xa0Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South\xa0(LSU Press, 2021) and co-editor of Steeped in a Culture of Violence: Murder, Racial Injustice, and Other Violent Crimes in Texas, 1965\u20132020 (Texas A&M University Press, scheduled Spring 2023). Twitter: @DrBrandonJett1.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies