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Assumed identities : the meanings of race in the Atlantic world /

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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Garrigus, John D., Morris, Christopher (Christopher Charles)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: [College Station, Tex.] : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A & M University Press, ©2010.
Édition:1st ed.
Collection:Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 41.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.