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We Are Who We Say We Are: A Black Family's Search for Home Across the Atlantic World

Name: We Are Who We Say We Are: A Black Family's Search for Home Across the Atlantic World
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199978335
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Contributors:

Mary Frances Berry

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography

Book Subcategory:

United States, Cultural & Ethnic Studies

Book Topic:

American

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Release Date:

12/1/2014

ISBN 13:

9780199978335

Weight:

0.57 lbs

Size:

8.10 x 5.50 x 0.60 inches

Pages:

224

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This colored Creole story offers a unique historical lens through which to understand the issues of migration, immigration, passing, identity, and color-forces that still shape American society today. We Are Who We Say We Are provides a detailed, nuanced account of shifting forms of racial identification within an extended familial network and constrained by law and social reality.

Author Mary Frances Berry, a well-known expert in the field, focuses on the complexity and malleability of racial meanings within the US over generations. Colored Creoles, similar to other immigrants and refugees, passed back and forth in the Atlantic world. Color was the cause and consequence for migration and identity, splitting the community between dark and light. Color could also split families. Louis Antoine Snaer, a free man of color and an officer in the Union Army who passed back and forth across the color line, had several brothers and sisters. Some chose to "pass" and some decided to remain "colored," even though they too, could have passed. This rich global history, beginning in Europe--with episodes in Haiti, Cuba, Louisiana, and California--emphasizes the diversity of the Atlantic World experience.

About the Author
Mary Frances Berry is Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of several books, including And Justice For All: The United States Commission On Civil Rights and the Struggle For Freedom in America (2009) and My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations (2005).

We Are Who We Say We Are: A Black Family's Search for Home Across the Atlantic World

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