{"id":9197,"date":"2010-09-26T20:08:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T20:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9197"},"modified":"2013-02-08T21:44:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T21:44:50","slug":"indivisible-african-native-american-lives-in-the-americas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9197","title":{"rendered":"IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"

IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Smithsonian Institution
\n2009
\n256 pages
\n6 5\/8 x 9 1\/2 inches
\n115 color and black-and-white illustrations
\nISBN: 978-1-58834-271-3<\/p>\n

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Twenty-seven passionate essays explore the complex history and contemporary lives of people with a dual heritage that is a little-known part of American culture. Authors from across the Americas share first-person accounts of struggle, adaptation, and survival and examine such diverse subjects as contemporary art, the Cherokee Freedmen issue<\/a>, and the evolution of jazz and blues. This richly illustrated book brings to light an epic history that speaks to present-day struggles for racial identity and understanding.<\/p>\n

IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas<\/em> accompanies the groundbreaking exhibition<\/a> of the same title developed by the National Museum of the American Indian<\/a> (NMAI) in partnership with the National Museum of African American History and Culture<\/a> (NMAAHC) and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service<\/a> (SITES). Through the concepts of policy, community, creative resistance, and lifeways, the exhibition and publication examine the long overlooked history of Native American and African American intersections in the Americas.<\/p>\n

The book features a foreword by NMAI Director Kevin Gover and NMAAHC Director Lonnie G. Bunch, III, essays by leading scholars, and approximately 100 object images, documents, and photographs. IndiVisible<\/em> illuminates a history fraught with colonial oppression, racial antagonism, and the loss of culture and identity. Uncovered within that history, however, are stories of cultural resurgence and the need to know one\u2019s roots. Guided by NMAI historian Gabrielle Tayac, five Native scholars served as curatorial advisors for the exhibition and contributors for the publication: Angela A. Gonzales, Robert K. Collins, Judy Kert\u00e9sz, Penny Gamble-Williams, and Thunder Williams. In addition to the curatorial advisors, esteemed authors Theda Perdue, Tiya Miles, Richard Hill, Sr., Herman J. Viola, and Ron Welburn\u2014among the book\u2019s many expert voices\u2014discuss race relations in the Jim Crow South<\/a>, creative resistance, the relationship between African Americans and the Haudenosaunee<\/a>, the famed buffalo soldiers<\/a> of the American West, and the roots of jazz and blues. Taken together, the book\u2019s essays and images create a portrait of a vital American subculture.<\/p>\n

Read the forward here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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