I know you!: understanding racial experience within the Lumbee Indian community

The author discusses racial experience within the Lumbee Indian community. Citing earlier discussion of Lumbee racial experience by anthropologist Karen Blu in the 1960s, discussions of identity by Lumbee Indians in interviews performed by anthropologist Carl Seltzer in the 1930s, and the author's experience as a member of the Lumbee community, the author suggests that interactions between Lumbee people can be best contextualized by looking at the history of their invisibility in the U.S. South. His argument is that racial experience, for Lumbee people, is a hybridization of subjectivity to U.S. Southern racial ideals and a concurrent subjectivity to the notions of kinship and community that define most Native American communities