http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/in-loving-memory/ "The need for unity is often misnamed as a need for homogeneity." Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:28:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/in-loving-memory/#comment-3666 gabriela63 Fri, 09 May 2008 07:43:39 +0000 http://resistracism.wordpress.com/?p=1040#comment-3666 Very interesting. Thanks for the link. In summary: "The leadership of the Five Tribes understood the dominant society’s racial ideology—that an individual’s phenotype heavily influenced whites’ willingness to perceive and accept an individual as Indian.208 They may also have understood that the surrounding states constructed black racial identity in terms of hypodescent, which meant that any known African ancestry could relegate an individual to the status of “Negro.”209 Thus, Indians understood that mixing with blacks could have a corrupting effect on Indian identity and potentially destroy it." Very interesting. Thanks for the link. In summary:
“The leadership of the Five Tribes understood the dominant society’s
racial ideology—that an individual’s phenotype heavily influenced
whites’ willingness to perceive and accept an individual as Indian.208
They may also have understood that the surrounding states constructed
black racial identity in terms of hypodescent, which meant that any
known African ancestry could relegate an individual to the status of
“Negro.”209 Thus, Indians understood that mixing with blacks could have
a corrupting effect on Indian identity and potentially destroy it.”

]]> http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/in-loving-memory/#comment-3662 panracial Thu, 08 May 2008 22:24:59 +0000 http://resistracism.wordpress.com/?p=1040#comment-3662 Did you know that Mildred Loving's was also Native American and her story also involves tribal anti-miscegenation laws ?http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/lawreview/issues/2007-2/pratt.pdf Did you know that Mildred Loving’s was also Native American and her story also involves tribal anti-miscegenation laws ?http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/lawreview/issues/2007-2/pratt.pdf

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