Publications

The following is a selected list of recent peer-reviewed publications:

Blogs

Collins, Robert Keith and Monica Rickert. “The Relevance of Native America to Black History.” Field Museum. February 15, 2021. https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/relevance-native-america-black-history.

 

Book Chapters 

Collins, Robert Keith. “Intersectionality and Ethnography" In Research Handbook on Intersectionality, edited by Mary Romero and Reshawna Chapple, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2023. Pp. 204-222.

Collins, Robert Keith. “How Did Black Folks Become Indians? What Lived Experiences Say About Belonging, Culture, and Racial Mixture in Native America.” In The Complexities of Race: Identity, Power, and Justice in an Evolving America, edited by Charmaine Wijeyesinghe, New York: NYU Press. 2021.

Collins, Robert Keith. “A Different Kind of Blackness: The Questions of Obama’s Blackness and Intra-racial Variation Among African Americans.” In Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority, edited by Andrew J. Jolivette, 169-190. Chicago: The Policy Press, 2012.  

Collins, Robert Keith. “What is a Black Indian? Misplaced Expectations and Lived Realities.” In IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas, edited by Gabrielle Tayac, 183-195. Washington, DC: National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian, 2009.

Collins, Robert Keith. “Katimih o Sa Chata Kiyou? (Why Am I Not Choctaw?): Race in the Lived Experiences of Two Black Choctaw Mixed Bloods.” In Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, edited by Sharon P. Holland and Tiya Miles, 260-272. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. 

 

Books/ Edited Volumes 

Collins, Robert Keith, ed. Native American Populations and Colonial Diseases. (San Diego: Cognella Press) Forthcoming, 2024.

Collins, Robert Keith, ed. Studying African- Native Americans: Problems, Perspectives, and Prospects. (London: Routledge), 2023.

Collins, Robert Keith, ed. African and Native American Contact in the U.S.: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives. (San Diego: Cognella Press) 2017.

 

Educational Videos

Collins, Robert Keith. “Comanche Empire.” Released 2019. Producer World History Project. Seattle, WA. 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLLalxylPU0.

Collins, Robert Keith. “Indigeneity and Globalization.” Released 2019. Producer World History Project. Seattle, WA. 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocMeSz-_Ks.

Collins, Robert Keith. “Buffalo Soldiers, Victorio, and Manifest Destiny.” Released 2017. Producer Daniel Leonard Bernardi. San Francisco, CA: Veterans Documentary Corps, El Dorado Films. 2017.

 

Encyclopedia Entries 

Collins, Robert Keith. “Black Indians” In Encyclopedia of African American Culture: From Dashikis to Yoruba, Gerald R. Early, ed.  Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press. Pp. 115-121. 2020. 

Collins, Robert Keith “Garifuna: A Spotlight Entry.” In Encyclopedia of African American Culture: From Dashikis to Yoruba, Gerald R. Early, ed.  Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press. Pp. x-x. 2020.

 

Guest Edited Journals 

Collins, Robert Keith. "Reducing Barrier to Native American Student Success: Challenges and Best Practices." A Special Edition of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal 37.3, 2013.

 

Journal Articles

Collins, Robert Keith and Alaka Wali. "Decolonizing Museums: Toward a Paradigm Shift" Annual Review of Anthropology. Vol 52. 2023.

Collins, Robert Keith. “Toward an Inter-American Study of African Transculturalization in Native America." In Colonialism, Coloniality, and Decolonization in the Americas. Josef Raab and Alexia Schemien, eds. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier/Bilingual Press, Tempe, AZ: (2021): 91-102. ​

Collins, Robert Keith. “How Africans Met Native Americans During Slavery.” Contexts, Summer (2020): 16-21.  

Collins, Robert Keith. “Toward an Inter-American Ethnography of Garifuna Cultural Change. In Inter-American Studies/Estudios Interamericanos series, with the title Inter-American Flows: Transnational Imaginaries and Impacts. Josef Raab and Alexia Schemien, eds. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier/Bilingual Press, Tempe, AZ: WVT, 2018.  

Collins, Robert Keith. “Commodified Culture as Ethnicity Maintenance: Garifuna Cultural Survival in 21st Century Los Angeles.” In Selling Ethnicity and Race: Consumerism and Represenation in Twenty-First Century America, edited by Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez, Frank Uzbeck, Anne Grob, and Maria Lippold, x-x. Trier: WVT, 2015. 

Collins, Robert Keith, “Reducing Barriers to American Indian Student Success” In Reducing Barrier to Native American Student Success: Challenges and Best Practices. A Special Edition of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal 37.3 (2013):ix-xvi.

Collins, Robert Keith, “Using Captions to Reduce Barriers to American Indian Student Success” In Reducing Barrier to Native American Student Success: Challenges and Best Practices. A Special Edition of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal 37.2 (2013):75-86.