Has not established a continuously separate racial identity.
"Part of the kinds of claims these groups make -- Piscataways, Lumbees, and many others -- is that they have always been separate from the African-American community. That is part of their claim to being Indian, essentially not being black ... But when you go back and look at the records, you can see that this separateness develops during the Jim Crow period, after the Civil War. If you look at the time period before the Civil War, you see extensive intermarriage within the black community. And no sense of community distinction."
| A quote from Thomas Brown, a sociology professor who has done research on Piscataway genealogy and history, in E.S. Dempsey's Indian Country Times article "Piscataway Conoy tribe loses bid for state recognition"
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