Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: The American Indian Quarterly
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Communing with the Dead: The “New Métis,” Métis Identity Appropriation, and the Displacement of Living Métis Culture The American Indian Quarterly Volume 42, Number 2, Spring 2018 pages 62-190 Adam Gaudry, Assistant Professor Faculty of Native Studies & Department of Political Science University of Alberta Métis are witnessing an increase in the number of self-identified…
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Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century by Circe Sturm (review) [Steineker] The American Indian Quarterly Volume 38, Number 3, Summer 2014 pages 400-402 DOI: 10.1353/aiq.2014.0028 Rowan Faye Steineker Department of History University of Oklahoma In Becoming Indian, anthropologist Circe Sturm provides another innovative study of Cherokee identity politics to accompany…
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Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century by Circe Sturm (review) The American Indian Quarterly Volume 37, Numbers 1-2, Winter/Spring 2013 pages 269-272 DOI: 10.1353/aiq.2013.0006 Miguel A. Maymí Circe Sturm’s book Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century is an insightful view into the motivations of those…
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“So what are you…?”: Life as a Mixed-Blood in Academia The American Indian Quarterly Volume 27, Numbers 1 & 2 (Winter/Spring 2003) pages 369-372 E-ISSN: 1534-1828 Print ISSN: 0095-182X DOI: 10.1353/aiq.2004.0038 Julie Pelletier, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and Director of the Aboriginal Governance Program University of Winnepeg My mentor, Loudell Snow, and I were…
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Telling Our Own Stories: Lumbee History and the Federal Acknowledgment Process The American Indian Quarterly Volume 33, Number 4, Fall 2009 pages 499-522 E-ISSN: 1534-1828, Print ISSN: 0095-182X Malinda Maynor Lowery, Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Being part of and writing about the Lumbee community means that history always emerges…
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The Flemish Bastard and the Former Indians: Métis and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New York The American Indian Quarterly Volume 34, Number 1 (Winter 2010) pages 83-108 E-ISSN: 1534-1828 Print ISSN: 0095-182X DOI: 10.1353/aiq.0.0087 Tom Arne Midtrød, Professor of History University of Iowa In 1709 the English Board of Trade recommended the settlement of three thousand…
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Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity (review) The American Indian Quarterly Volume 33, Number 4 Fall 2009 E-ISSN: 1534-1828 Print ISSN: 0095-182X DOI: 10.1353/aiq.0.0078 Gary C. Cheek Jr. Jolivétte, Andrew J., Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity, Lexington Books, 2006. “Who is white?” Jolivétte asks in the first chapter…