Race and Indigeneity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Boundary Formation ◽  
White American ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Native Identity

Looking at processes of racial boundary formation, especially in everyday practices, allows for researchers to understand how racialized distinctions are made, remade, and understood. For Native Nations, membership is heavily influenced by Indigenous kinship practices. Kinship systems reinforce laws that maintain place-based forms of social organization; however, Indigenous kinship practices are not always accounted for in discussions regarding American Indian racial boundary formation. Overlooking Indigenous kinship practices leaves room for misidentification, especially when misidentification is grounded in anti-Indian and anti-Black racism. Overlooking Indigenous kinship systems also leaves room for Native identity and trauma to be appropriated, namely by white American settlers. This chapter discusses how not accounting for Indigenous kinship systems leaves room for misclassification, appropriation, and racial violence.

American Indian Migration and Economic Opportunities

1986 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary D. Sandefur
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indian Policy ◽  
Interstate Migration ◽  
Federal Indian Policy ◽  
White Couples ◽  
White American

This article examines interstate migration and labor force participation among White, American Indian and intermarried Indian/White couples. The results show that endogamous American Indian couples are much less likely to change states of residence than are the other two groups of couples. The effect of interstate migration on labor force participation does not vary across the three groups of couples. The implications of these results for the assimilation and internal colonial models of race relations and for federal Indian policy are discussed.

Cuba Calls: African American Tourism, Race, and the Cuban Revolution, 1959–1961

2013 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devyn Spence Benson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Cuban Revolution ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
White American ◽  
One Year ◽  
World Champion

Abstract This essay explores the role that conversations about race and racism played in forming a partnership between an African American public relations firm and the Cuban National Tourist Institute (INIT) in 1960, just one year after Fidel Castro’s victory over Fulgencio Batista. The article highlights how Cuban revolutionary leaders, Afro-Cubans, and African Americans exploited temporary transnational relationships to fight local battles. Claiming that the Cuban Revolution had eliminated racial discrimination, INIT invited world champion boxer Joe Louis and 50 other African Americans to the island in January 1960 to experience “first class treatment — as first class citizens.” This move benefited Cuban revolutionary leaders by encouraging new tourism as the number of mainstream white American travelers to the island declined. The business venture also allowed African Americans to compare racial violence in the US South to the supposed integrated racial paradise in Cuba and foreshadowed future visits by black radicals, including NAACP leader Robert F. Williams. The politics expressed by Cuban newspapers and travel brochures, however, did not always fit with the lived experiences of Afro-Cubans. This essay uncovers how Afro-Cubans threatened national discourses by invoking revolutionary promises to denounce continued racial segregation in the very facilities promoted to African American tourists. Ultimately, ideas about race did not just cross borders between Cuba and the United States in 1960. Rather, they constituted and constructed those borders as Afro-Cubans used government claims to reposition themselves within the new revolutionary state.

scholarly journals Suffering Like a Broken Toy

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-168
Author(s):  
ELISE AG DUWE
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
American Indians ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Cultural Engagement ◽  
Illness Experiences ◽  
Difficult Conversations ◽  
Native Identity ◽  
Transformative Mixed Methods

This paper will explore the difficult conversations and places of tension in the lived experience of chronic pain for urban American Indians from a larger study discerning relationships between chronic pain and colonization. A concurrent transformative mixed methods design with in-depth interviews and a survey was used for the larger study. This paper concerns only the qualitative data. Forty self-identified American Indian adults living in Indiana, Chicago, and Tulsa who reported pain for greater than three months provided their chronic pain illness experiences for this paper. The paper uses three data-derived themes to encompass the broad reaching social, psychological, and cultural suffering inherent in coping with chronic pain: invisibility, psychological peace, and warrior strength. American Indian chronic pain sufferers in this study struggle with the multiplicative invisibility of both their chronic pain and their native identity. The invisibility leads to passing as white in environments hostile to people of color. It also results in family disconnection, loneliness, and isolation. In order to survive socially-mediated assaults, American Indian chronic pain sufferers keep their psyche at peace through stress management, cultural engagement, and non-negativity. They also call upon warrior strength—their understanding that American Indians as peoples have always survived bolsters their individual strength to push through the pain. They seek to function without further debility and to maintain their economic, spiritual, social, and physical wellness. Ultimately the participants in this research tell a profound, critical, and world-changing story that requires attention in overcoming barriers to full thriving with chronic pain.

Racism in a “Raceless” Society: The Soviet Press and Representations of American Racial Violence at Stalingrad in 1930

2007 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Roman
Keyword(s):  
Black Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ford Motor Company ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Black American ◽  
Black Workers ◽  
Socialist Society ◽  
White American ◽  
Soviet Trade ◽  
Socialist Industry

AbstractIn late August 1930, two white American workers from the Ford Motor Company in Detroit were tried for attacking a black American laborer at one of the Soviet Union's prized giants of socialist industry, the Stalingrad Traktorostroi. Soviet trade-union authorities and all-union editors used the near month-long campaign to bring the two assailants to “proletarian justice,” in order to cultivate the image that workers in the USSR valued American technical and industrial knowledge in the construction of the new socialist society, but vehemently rejected American racism. They reinforced this image in publications by juxtaposing visual depictions of Soviet citizens' acceptance of black Americans as equals against those which portrayed the lynching of black workers in the United States.

Aboriginal social organization, contemporary experience and American Indian adolescent alcohol use.

2003 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 450-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Spicer ◽  
Douglas K Novins ◽  
Christina M Mitchell ◽  
Janette Beals
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Adolescent Alcohol Use ◽  
Adolescent Alcohol

scholarly journals Hidden in Plain Sight: The American Indian Movement and the Revival of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, 1969-1982

Perceptions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashton Dunkley
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
American Indian ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Driving Factor ◽  
American Indian Movement ◽  
Native Identity

This paper explores the resurgence of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape of New Jersey in the latter half of the 20th century. This thesis argues that the American Indian Movement, with its strong advocation for Native existence and pride, along with Pan-Indianism, unity amongst all tribes, acted as a driving factor in the revival of the Eastern Woodland tribe, the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape. From the eighteenth century, tribes on the East Coast were forced westward and north, but the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape people remained hidden in plain sight on their native lands, to which they had been tied to for over 10,000 years. Parents taught their children to hide their native heritage in hopes that they would not be forced from their home as well. Generation after generation, fewer and fewer children were aware of their “Nativeness.” The Lenape traditions, language, and cultural practices which had only been passed down orally were beginning to fade away. By the 1960’s, what started off as a survival tactic to cope with white encroachment metamorphosed into an everyday part of life and as a result, this tight-knit community’s Native identity had been displaced. In the early 1970’s, a number of inspired Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape families worked to reverse the loss of their community’s traditions and identity, unify, and retain a collective recognition of being Native American and a pride in that ancestry.

scholarly journals Blood Politics, Ethnic Identity, and Racial Misclassification among American Indians and Alaska Natives

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily A. Haozous ◽  
Carolyn J. Strickland ◽  
Janelle F. Palacios ◽  
Teshia G. Arambula Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
American Indian ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Alaska Native ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Alaska Natives ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Current State ◽  
Native Identity ◽  
State Of The Science

Misclassification of race in medical and mortality records has long been documented as an issue in American Indian/Alaska Native data. Yet, little has been shared in a cohesive narrative which outlines why misclassification of American Indian/Alaska Native identity occurs. The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of the current state of the science in racial misclassification among American Indians and Alaska Natives. We also provide a historical context on the importance of this problem and describe the ongoing political processes that both affect racial misclassification and contribute to the context of American Indian and Alaska Native identity.

Gendering the History of Race and Religion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Jemison
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
American Religious History ◽  
Scholarly Writing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Race And Religion ◽  
History Of Race

This chapter shows how recent scholarly writing is bringing gender from the margin to the center of scholarship on race and religion and proposes new areas for research in American Indian, Latina/o, Asian American, and African American histories. These recent and future publications use intersectional and interdisciplinary methods to transform categories of scholarly analysis, namely those of religion, racial violence, and politics. This chapter broadly examines the state of this field of gender, race, and religion in American history and then turns to a case study of one of the field’s best developed areas, African American religious history, to show how attention to gender is changing the terms of scholarly conversation.

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