Invisible People An Autoethnography on Multi-Ethnic Identity: Black-Native Americans

This Independent Study is an autoethnography about the issues facing multi-ethnic identity focusing on Black-Native American identification. In the United States, race became the main form of human identity, and it has had a tragic effect on low-status ˜racial\u27 minorities and on those people who perceive themselves as of ˜mixed race\u27 (Smedley, 1999, 690). Through ethnographic interviewing and autoethnography I highlight the factors that affect the way Black-Native Americans self-identify based on internal and external situations. I prove through my research that identity is based on a number of factors: Blood or DNA, Family ethnicity, Phenotype, etc. and these factors affect the way a Multi-ethnic person identifies themselves or society identifies them