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Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds explores the critically neglected intersection of Native and African American cultures. This interdisciplinary collection combines historical studies of the complex relations between blacks and Indians in Native communities with considerations and examples of various forms of cultural expression that have emerged from their intertwined histories. The contributors include scholars of African American and Native American studies, English, history, anthropology, law, and performance studies, as well as fiction writers, poets, and a visual artist.
Essays range from a close reading of the 1838 memoirs of a black and Native freewoman to an analysis of how Afro-Native intermarriage has impacted the identities and federal government classifications of certain New England Indian tribes. One contributor explores the aftermath of black slavery in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, highlighting issues of culture and citizenship. Another scrutinizes the controversy that followed the 1998 selection of a Miss Navajo Nation who had an African American father. A historian examines the status of Afro-Indians in colonial Mexico, and an ethnographer reflects on oral histories gathered from Afro-Choctaws. Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds includes evocative readings of several of Toni Morrison's novels, interpretations of plays by African American and First Nations playwrights, an original short story by Roberta J. Hill, and an interview with the Creek poet and musician Joy Harjo. The Native American scholar Robert Warrior develops a theoretical model for comparative work through an analysis of black and Native intellectual production. In his afterword, he reflects on the importance of the critical project advanced by this volume.
Contributors. Jennifer D. Brody, Tamara Buffalo, David A. Y. O. Chang, Robert Keith Collins, Roberta J. Hill, Sharon P. Holland, ku'ualoha ho'omnawanui, Deborah E. Kanter, Virginia Kennedy, Barbara Krauthamer, Tiffany M. McKinney, Melinda Micco, Tiya Miles, Celia E. Naylor, Eugene B. Redmond, Wendy S. Walters, Robert Warrior
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reviewed Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country on July 02, 2018 Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
This book was very academic, but not too dry. It mostly focused on the "one drop rule" and how blacks/African Americans have been defined throughout American history according to that rule.
There is a lot of US history in the book, starting with slavery and continuing through the Reconstruction era, discussing the impact of Jim Crow laws, etc. Many precedent setting court cases involving racial classification for black people are discussed: Plessy v. Ferguson, Phipps v. Louisiana.
This book was published 20 years ago, so there is a big piece of discussion missing. At the end of the book, the author just begins to talk about the move towards classifying people as multi-racial, beginning with the change in the 2000 census allowing people to select more than one race.
I'm 36, and I find that most people my age and younger who are multi-racial, particularly if they have one black parent and one white parent, tend to define themselves as "mixed" or "biracial" rather than simply black. The "one drop rule" doesn't seem to be holding strong the way the author predicts it will, or at least the way it has been demonstrated in the past.
Anyway, very interesting read, and I'll be on the lookout for newer books that discuss this topic in the context of today's milieu.
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