Assumed identities : the meanings of race in the Atlantic world / edited by John D. Garrigus and Christopher Morris ; introduction by Franklin W. Knight ; contributors, John D. Garrigus [and others].

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TextSeries: Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 41.Publication details: [College Station, Tex.] : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A & M University Press, ©2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (x, 152 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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ISBN:

9781603443197
1603443193
1299052118
9781299052116

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History

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Assumed identities.DDC classification:

305.800973 22

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E29.A1 A86 2010eb

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

Introduction: race and identity in the new world / Franklin W. Knight -- "Thy coming fame, Ogé! is sure": new evidence on Ogé's 1790 revolt and the beginnings of the Haitian Revolution / John D. Garrigus -- "The child should be made a Christian": baptism, race, and identity in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / Rebecca Goetz -- West Indian identity in the eighteenth century / Trevor Burnard -- Illegal enslavement and the precariousness of freedom in nineteenth-century Brazil / Sidney Chalhoub -- Rosalie of the Poulard nation: freedom, law, and dignity in the era of the Haitian Revolution / Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hébrard -- In memoriam, Evan Anders.

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Summary: With the recent election of the nation's first African American president--an individual of blended Kenyan and American heritage who spent his formative years in Hawaii and Indonesia--the topic of transnational identity is reaching the forefront of the national consciousness in an unprecedented way. As our society becomes increasingly diverse and intermingled, it is increasingly imperative to understand how race and heritage impact our perceptions of and interactions with each other. Assumed Identities constitutes an important step in this direction.However, "identity is a slippery concept," say the editors of this instructive volume. This is nowhere more true than in the melting pot of the early trans-Atlantic cultures formed in the colonial New World during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. As the studies in this volume show, during this period in the trans-Atlantic world individuals and groups fashioned their identities but also had identities ascribed to them by surrounding societies. The historians who have contributed to this volume investigate these processes of multiple identity formation, as well as contemporary understandings of them.Originating in the 2007 Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures presented at the University of Texas at Arlington, Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World examines, among other topics, perceptions of racial identity in the Chesapeake community, in Brazil, and in Saint-Domingue (colonial-era Haiti). As the contributors demonstrate, the cultures in which these studies are sited helped define the subjects' self-perceptions and the ways others related to them.

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With the recent election of the nation's first African American president--an individual of blended Kenyan and American heritage who spent his formative years in Hawaii and Indonesia--the topic of transnational identity is reaching the forefront of the national consciousness in an unprecedented way. As our society becomes increasingly diverse and intermingled, it is increasingly imperative to understand how race and heritage impact our perceptions of and interactions with each other. Assumed Identities constitutes an important step in this direction.However, "identity is a slippery concept," say the editors of this instructive volume. This is nowhere more true than in the melting pot of the early trans-Atlantic cultures formed in the colonial New World during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. As the studies in this volume show, during this period in the trans-Atlantic world individuals and groups fashioned their identities but also had identities ascribed to them by surrounding societies. The historians who have contributed to this volume investigate these processes of multiple identity formation, as well as contemporary understandings of them.Originating in the 2007 Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures presented at the University of Texas at Arlington, Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World examines, among other topics, perceptions of racial identity in the Chesapeake community, in Brazil, and in Saint-Domingue (colonial-era Haiti). As the contributors demonstrate, the cultures in which these studies are sited helped define the subjects' self-perceptions and the ways others related to them.

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