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We Are Who We Say We Are: A Black Family's Search for Home Across the Atlantic World
Contributor(s): Berry, Mary Frances (Author)
ISBN: 0199978336     ISBN-13: 9780199978335
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $34.64  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: December 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
- Biography & Autobiography
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2014029007
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (0.57 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
 
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Publisher Description:
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.