For Hughes, the ability to negotiate between inchoate identities---Afro-American, Native American, African, and mixed-blood---offered not a liberating choice of selves, but rather a paralyzing anxiety about not belonging anywhere.;Chapter two examines Richard Wright's Black Boy (19...
Eurafrican - a person of mixed European and African descent Eurasian - a person of mixed European and Asian descent sahib - formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India; used after the name Celt, Kelt - a member of a European people who once occupied Britain ...
Free Essay: The initial clash between the European and Native American cultures is the start of our Mixed-American history. Like many other colonization...
Classic surveys of the native peoples of North America includeEdward S. Curtis,The North American Indian, 20 vol. (1907–30, reissued 1978);Clark Wissler,The American Indian: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the New World(1917, reprinted 2005);A.L. Kroeber,Cultural and Natural Areas of...
Callie, who is African-American and a Cherokee citizen, is paired with classmate Franklin, who is Black, to work on an assignment that debates the “Pros and Cons of Indigenous Peoples as Mascots.” Callie is deeply disgusted by the school's racist mascot, but Franklin feels differently. The...
Although his political allegiances were becoming more conservative, Ford was becoming more direct and questioning about who could be considered American and what the country could mean to them were becoming more pointed. He would soon construct creation myths for African-Americans (Sergeant Rutledge, ...
The terms "Amerindian" and "Indian", both of which are derivatives of "American Indian" (as is "Amerind", though this term is more popular in linguistic circles), are not necessarily completely synonymous with "Native American". Although all Amerindians are Native Americans, not all Native ...
While we sometimes find Native American haplogroups among the Acadians, including the confusing Germain Doucet born in 1641, we can also expect to find European haplogroups among the descendants of the Native people. Genevieve Massignon, who researched in the mid-1900s, came to the conclusion ...
Creating an Islamic-American Culture #MuslimsAtStandingRock Indigenous Peoples’ Day Panel Join Lakota, Diné, K’iche Spanish speaking Indigenous, and mixed African American-Indigenous Muslims as they discuss identity, Indigenous Rights, systemic racism, and Muslim solidarity at Indigenous People’s Day...