{"id":55200,"date":"2017-11-18T00:56:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T00:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55200"},"modified":"2017-11-18T00:56:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T00:56:46","slug":"we-are-who-we-say-we-are-a-black-familys-search-for-home-across-the-atlantic-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55200","title":{"rendered":"We Are Who We Say We Are: A Black Family’s Search for Home Across the Atlantic World"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Are Who We Say We Are: A Black Family’s Search for Home Across the Atlantic World<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Oxford University Press<\/a>
\n2014-12-01
\n224 Pages
\n32 illustrations
\n5-1\/2 x 8-1\/4 inches
\nPaperback ISBN: 9780199978335<\/p>\n

Mary Frances Berry<\/strong><\/a>, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Author Mary Frances Berry, a well-known expert in the field, focuses on the complexity and malleability of racial meanings within the US<\/a> over generations. Colored Creoles, similar to other immigrants and refugees, passed back and forth in the Atlantic world<\/a>. 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>, a free man of color and an officer in the Union Army<\/a> who passed back and forth across the color line, had several brothers and sisters. Some chose to “pass<\/a>” and some decided to remain “colored,” even though they too, could have passed. This rich global history, beginning in Europe<\/a>–with episodes in Haiti<\/a>, Cuba<\/a>, Louisiana<\/a>, and California<\/a>–emphasizes the diversity of the Atlantic World experience.<\/p>\n

Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n