{"id":27090,"date":"2012-12-24T01:11:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T01:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27090"},"modified":"2015-01-01T02:14:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T02:14:45","slug":"an-eagle-eye-in-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27090","title":{"rendered":"An Eagle Eye in Harlem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/narrative.ly\/2012\/12\/an-eagle-eye-in-harlem\/\" target=\"_blank\">An Eagle Eye in Harlem<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/narrative.ly\" target=\"_blank\">narratively: Local. Original. Organic. In-Depth.<\/a><br \/>\n2012-12-10<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennimonet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jenni Monet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lenox_Avenue\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Malcolm X Boulevard<\/em><\/a><em> to <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pow_wow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>pow-wow<\/em><\/a><em> road trips, a black man from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_(U.S._state)\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia<\/a> adopts a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cherokee\" target=\"_blank\">Cherokee<\/a> persona despite questionable ties to any Native American roots.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/55230537?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;badge=0&amp;color=C60651\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Robert Banks\u2019 one-bedroom flat is lavishly decorated with Native American artwork\u2014sculptures and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dreamcatcher\" target=\"_blank\">dreamcatchers<\/a> that the 71-year-old Georgia native created himself. On his kitchen cupboards are hand-painted feathers with tips of burnt-orange. A grand self-portrait hangs above Banks\u2019 dark green velvet couch, where he often sifts through pictures of his past\u2014a family he says descends from Cherokee Indians&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Produced, shot and edited by Jenni Monet, a multimedia journalist telling stories about NYC, Native Americans and the Indigenous.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Eagle Eye in Harlem narratively: Local. Original. Organic. In-Depth. 2012-12-10 Jenni Monet From Malcolm X Boulevard to pow-wow road trips, a black man from Georgia adopts a Cherokee persona despite questionable ties to any Native American roots. Robert Banks\u2019 one-bedroom flat is lavishly decorated with Native American artwork\u2014sculptures and dreamcatchers that the 71-year-old Georgia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,8,3015,20,842],"tags":[13169,13170,13171],"class_list":["post-27090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","category-videos","tag-jenni-monet","tag-narratively-local-original-organic-in-depth","tag-robert-banks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27090","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=27090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}