In 2012, an exhibition at the National Museum of the American
Indian entitled "IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the
Americas" illuminated the experiences and history of a frequently
overlooked multiracial group. This book redresses that erasure and
contributes to the growing body of scholarship about people of
mixed African and Indigenous ancestry in the United States. Yoking
considerations of authenticity in Life Writing with questions of
authenticity in relationship to mixed-race subjectivity, Cannon
analyzes how Black Native Americans navigate narratives of racial
and ethnic authenticity through a variety of autobiographical
forms. Through close readings of scrapbooks by Sylvester Long
Lance, oral histories from Black Americans formerly enslaved by
American Indians, the music of Jimi Hendrix, photographs of
contemporary Black Indians, and the performances of former Miss
Navajo Radmilla Cody, Cannon argues that people who straddle Black
and Indigenous identities in the United States unsettle biological,
political, and cultural metrics of racial authenticity. The
creative ways that Afro-Native American people have negotiated
questions of belonging, authenticity, and representation in the
past 120 years testify to the empowering possibilities of expanding
definitions of autobiography.
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