Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation is one of the inaugural books in the multi-press collaborative series First Peoples, New Directions in Indigenous Studies. In a guest post for the First Peoples blog, author Malinda Maynor Lowery (Lumbee) writes about how she continues to navigate the effects of colonialism in her ongoing work in her Lumbee community and in her scholarship. An excerpt: My book, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South, has been called on to do several kinds of work since its release. Some...