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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.

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<p> Racial Pride isn't the worst thing in the world, but it can prove a detriment to society. The Magic Children: Racial Identity at the End of the Age of Race is a scholarly analysis of race from Roger Echo-Hawk, a Native American Indian who has stated he has given up his race in his own journey to gain a greater understanding of it, giving readers a thorough discussion of Native American issues such as Red Pride, Archaeology, and more. Thoughtful and educational, The Magic Children is a vital addition to any community library social issues and Native American studies collections. <p>-The Midwest Book Review

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Historian Roger Echo-Hawk is the author of two books on American Indian repatriation, as well as an online book about the origins of racial identity among his Pawnee ancestors: The Enchanted Mirror: When the Pawnees Became Indians. View Echo-Hawk's family page and Roger Echo-Hawk's web page to read more about his thoughts on race.

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