{"id":12405,"date":"2011-03-01T23:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T23:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12405"},"modified":"2014-11-24T01:13:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T01:13:44","slug":"estelusti-marginality-a-qualitative-examination-of-the-black-seminole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12405","title":{"rendered":"Estelusti Marginality: A Qualitative Examination of the Black Seminole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpanafrican.com\/docs\/vol2no4\/2.4_Estelusti_Marginality.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Estelusti Marginality: A Qualitative Examination of the Black Seminole<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpanafrican.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Journal of Pan African Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpanafrican.com\/archive_issues\/currentissue_vol2no4.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 2, Number 4<\/a> (June 2008)<br \/>\npages 60-80<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"rvrobertson@lamar.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Ray Von Robertson<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Approximately four years ago, I began collecting interview data with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Estelusti\" target=\"_blank\">Black Seminoles\/Estelusti<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma<\/a>. My research focused on how the Black Seminoles negotiated their marginal status within the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seminole_Nation_of_Oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\">Seminole Nation of Oklahoma<\/a> and with nonfreedman Blacks. Using <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/BF01117555 \" target=\"_blank\">Weisberger\u2019s (1992) marginality construct<\/a>, I found that the Estelusti most often employed \u2018poise\u2019 to manage their state of \u2018double ambivalence\u2019. This study further explored the issue of Black Seminole marginality after their reintegration into the cultural group in 2003. My findings, while different in specifics, were generally consistent with those found a few years earlier. The Black Seminoles still appear to experience significant marginality and are not fully accepted by the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpanafrican.com\/docs\/vol2no4\/2.4_Estelusti_Marginality.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estelusti Marginality: A Qualitative Examination of the Black Seminole The Journal of Pan African Studies Volume 2, Number 4 (June 2008) pages 60-80 Ray Von Robertson, Assistant Professor of Sociology Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas Approximately four years ago, I began collecting interview data with Black Seminoles\/Estelusti in Oklahoma. My research focused on how the Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,459,125,8,3015,20],"tags":[5556,1777,5557,5558],"class_list":["post-12405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-estelusti","tag-oklahoma","tag-ray-von-robertson","tag-the-journal-of-pan-african-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}