Magic Children

One day at the end of the twentieth century Roger Echo-Hawk decided to give up being an Indian. After becoming an American Indian historian he started to question our widespread reliance on a concept of race that the academy had long-since discredited and embarked on a personal and professional journey to giving up race himself. This passionate book offers a powerful meditation on racialism and a manifesto for creating a world without it. Echo-Hawk examines personal identity social movements and policy—NAGPRA Indian law Red Pride indigenous archaeology—showing how they rely on race and how they should move beyond it.