{"id":6240,"date":"2022-11-01T13:38:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T13:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=6240"},"modified":"2022-11-01T13:38:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T13:38:47","slug":"lowery-quoted-in-article-on-race-law-and-identity-among-the-nc-lumbee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2022\/11\/01\/lowery-quoted-in-article-on-race-law-and-identity-among-the-nc-lumbee\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowery Quoted in Article on Race, Law, and Identity among the NC Lumbee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cover of Lowery’s most recent monograph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Cahoon Professor or American History, Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery<\/a>, was recently quoted in The Assembly<\/a>, <\/em>a digital magazine launched in 2021 that provides in-depth investigative journalism on North Carolina topics. The piece, “Who\u2019s Your People?<\/a>,” centers on North Carolina’s Lumbee Tribe and their members’ century-long fight for federal recognition. Dr. Lowery is a member of the Lumbee and author of multiple books on Lumbee history, including The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle<\/em> (UNC Press, 2018) and Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation<\/em>\u00a0(UNC Press, 2010). Read an excerpt from the article in The Assembly <\/em>below, along with the full piece: “Who\u2019s Your People?<\/a>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Despite their prominence in local politics, little seems to be known about the Lumbee\u2019s diverse and mysterious origins. Tribal members trace their ancestry to Algonquin, Siouan, and Iroquoian-speaking nations indigenous to what are now the Carolinas, who were scattered and nearly exterminated by settler colonialism.

“According to Malinda Maynor Lowery, a historian at Emory University, member of the Lumbee tribe, and the author of The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle, refugees of decimated peoples huddled together in the impenetrable Robeson County swamp, where, over time, they intermarried with English- and Gaelic-speaking settlers, as well as Black slaves and freedmen.<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cahoon Professor or American History, Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery, was recently quoted in The Assembly, a digital magazine launched in 2021 that provides in-depth investigative journalism on North Carolina topics. The piece, “Who\u2019s Your People?,” centers on North Carolina’s Lumbee Tribe and their members’ century-long fight for federal recognition. Dr. Lowery is a member of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}