Books
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family
in Slavery and Freedom (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2005). Ties That Bind was awarded the Frederick
Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians
(2006) and the Lora Romero Distinguished First Book Award
from the American Studies Association (2006). UC
Press Website. In 2006, Miles was named
a "Top Young Historian" by the History News
Network.
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora
in Indian Country, essay collection co-edited with
Sharon P. Holland (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).
Articles and Chapters
“Circular Reasoning: Recentering Cherokee Women in the Antiremoval Campaigns,” American Quarterly (forthcoming 2009).
“The Narrative of Nancy, A Cherokee Woman,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Special Issue: Intermarriage and North American Indians 29: 2 & 3 (spring 2008).
“Rethinking Race and Culture in the Early South,”
Co-authored with Claudio Saunt, Barbara Krauthamer, Celia
E. Naylor, Circe Sturm, Ethnohistory 53:2 (spring
2006).
“His Kingdom for a Kiss: Indians and Intimacy in
the Narrative of John Marrant,” Haunted by Empire:
Race and Colonial Intimacies in North American History,
ed., Ann Laura Stoler (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).
“All in the Family? A Meditation on White Centrality,
Black Exclusion, and the Intervention of Afro-Native Studies,”
Foreword to Race, Roots, and Relations: Native and African
Americans, ed., Terry Straus (Chicago: Albatross Press
2005).
“Africans and Native Americans,” co-authored
with Barbara Krauthamer, A Companion to African-American
History, volume ed., Alton Hornsby Jr., (Oxford: Blackwell
Publishing, 2005).
“African-Americans in Indian Societies,” co-authored
with Celia E. Naylor, Handbook of North American Indians,
vol. 14 Southeast, ed., Raymond Fogelson (Washington DC:
Smithsonian, 2004).
“Uncle Tom Was an Indian: Tracing the Red in Black
Slavery,” Confounding the Color Line: Indian-Black
Relations in Multidisciplinary Perspective, ed., James
Brooks, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002).
