A Pan-Africanist Analysis of Black Seminole Perceptions of Racism, Discrimination, and Exclusion

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Abstract

This study selected nine responses from a pool of twenty-six interviews, covering two time periods, with identifiable Black Seminoles. The interview responses were utilized to discern feelings of racism, discrimination, and exclusion of Black Seminoles by the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. The selected interviews were evaluated through the line of sight provided by Staples' (1976) Pan-Africanist model using latent-content analysis. Hence, it was concluded that the selected Black Seminoles perceived racism and discrimination, by both the government and the Seminoles, were prominent in their exclusion from full acceptance within the Seminole Nation of …