{"id":56792,"date":"2018-08-22T03:46:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T03:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56792"},"modified":"2018-08-22T03:47:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T03:47:22","slug":"why-should-we-separate-out-based-on-this-thing-this-race-thing-if-we-have-grown-them-and-they-speak-lumbee-the-way-we-speak-lumbee-and-theyve-gone-to-lumbee-schools-and-lumbee-chu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56792","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhy should we separate out based on this thing, this race thing? If we have grown them and they speak Lumbee the way we speak Lumbee, and they\u2019ve gone to Lumbee schools and Lumbee churches and we\u2019ve fed them and nourished them, they\u2019re Lumbee.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lumbee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lumbees<\/a> have red hair and freckles, others have tight blond curls, and others have sleek, dark hair and mocha skin. No one is kicked out of the tribe because of their skin tone \u2014 and that concept is hard for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bureau_of_Indian_Affairs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BIA<\/a> to accept, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/libres.uncg.edu\/ir\/uncp\/clist.aspx?id=10028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Ann Jacobs<\/a>, chair of the Department of American Indian Studies at UNC-Pembroke. \u201cThey don\u2019t like the fact that we refuse to put people out who look too white or look too black. If they\u2019re our people, we keep them.\u201d Jacobs laughed, as if the idea of doing anything else were absurd. \u201cWe refuse to give them back. Why should we separate out based on this thing, this race thing? If we have grown them and they speak Lumbee the way we speak Lumbee, and they\u2019ve gone to Lumbee schools and Lumbee churches and we\u2019ve fed them and nourished them, they\u2019re Lumbee.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lisa Rab, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What Makes Someone Native American?<\/a>\u201d <em>The Washington Post Magazine<\/em>, August 20, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/style\/wp\/2018\/08\/20\/feature\/what-makes-someone-native-american-one-tribes-long-struggle-for-full-recognition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/style\/wp\/2018\/08\/20\/feature\/what-makes-someone-native-american-one-tribes-long-struggle-for-full-recognition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Lumbees have red hair and freckles, others have tight blond curls, and others have sleek, dark hair and mocha skin. No one is kicked out of the tribe because of their skin tone \u2014 and that concept is hard for the BIA to accept, according to Mary Ann Jacobs, chair of the Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28925,877,15548,28937,2875,27606,2581,27607],"class_list":["post-56792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-lisa-rab","tag-lumbee","tag-lumbee-indians","tag-mary-ann-jacobs","tag-the-washington-post","tag-the-washington-post-magazine","tag-washington-post","tag-washington-post-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56792","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=56792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56793,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56792\/revisions\/56793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}