Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Play Could Begin Renaissance For Seminole Nation Culture The Seminole Producer Seminole, Oklahoma 2013-11-13 pages 1-2 Karen Anson, Senior Editor IndianVoices.net contributed to this report A play on the history of the Seminole Nation’s Freedmen is wrapping up in Los Angeles, but those involved hope it’s only the beginning of a movement. The play, “the…
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Phil “Pompey” Fixicio To Speak on a Post Show Panel Exploring African American and Native American Spirituality Los Angeles Theater Center 514 South Spring Street Los Angeles, California 90013 Telephone: 213.489.0994 Sunday, 2013-11-03, 15:00 PST (Local Time) On Sunday November 3rd, in honor of the new play on the Seminole people, the road weeps, the well…
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Black Seminoles and The Underground Railroad AC Bilbrew Library 150 E. El Segundo Blvd. Los Angeles, California 90061 310-538-3350 Saturday, 2013-11-23, 14:30 PST (Local Time) Phil Wilkes Fixico Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by exploring the history of free Blacks and fugitive slaves who escaped to Florida between the 1600s and 1800s, forging alliances with…
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The Era of Black Indian Transcendance Refixico 2013-09-29 Phil Wilkes Fixico, Seminole Maroon Descendant, California Seminole Mico (Nation of One) and Heniha for the Wildcat/John Horse Band of the Seminoles of Texas and Old Mexico I was a 52 yr. old African-American, when I discovered that I was really an African-Native American. This epiphany took…
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A Tale of Two Seminole Counties Indian Voices August 2013 page 7 Phil Fixico Some coincidences can’t be ignored, like February the 26th, in both Florida’s and Oklahoma’s Seminole Counties. What does this date and these counties have in common. Trayvon Martin was killed on February 26th, 2012, in Seminole County, Florida. He was born…
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Racially, I’m an African-Native American. Culturally, I’m an aspiring Seminole Maroon descendant. But to the people of America who see me on the street, I’m just another flavor of Black. Phil Wilkes Fixico, “Episode 225 – Phil Wilkes Fixico,” Mixed Chicks Chat, September 14, 2011. (00:09:12-00:09:28). http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-34257/TS-504952.mp3.
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Phil Wilkes Fixico—African-Native American activist, is a Seminole Maroon Descendant, Creek and Cherokee Freedmen descendant, Honorary Heniha for the Wildcat/John Horse Band of the Texas Seminoles, California Semiroon Mico, Member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Buffalo Soldiers 9th & 10th (horse) Cavalry and the Seminole Negro Indian Scouts of Brackettville, Texas. William Katz…
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Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa Honors A West Coast Black Seminole Leader Indian Voices January 2012 pages 7 & 11 Dr. Bruce Twyman On October 28th, 2011 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa honored the Native American community of Southern California by hosting the cities’ annual American Indian Heritage Month celebration at city hall. A noteworthy and…
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Phil Wilkes Fixico to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #225-Phil Wilkes Fixico When: Wednesday, 2011-09-14,…