Format:
1 online resource (165 pages)
ISBN:
9781603443197
Series Statement:
Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press v.41
Content:
With the recent election of the nation's first African American president, 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.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Race and Identity in the New World -- "Thy Coming Fame, Ogé! Is Sure": New Evidence on Ogé's! Revoltand the Beginnings of the Haitian Revolution -- "The Child Should Be Made a Christian": Baptism, Race, and Identity inthe Seventeenth- century Chesapeake -- West Indian Identityin the Eighteenth Century -- Illegal Enslavement and the Precariousness of Freedom inNineteenth- century Brazil -- Rosalie of the Poulard Nation: Freedom, Law, and Dignity inthe Era of the Haitian Revolution -- In Memoriam, Evan Anders -- About the Contributors -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781603441926
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781603441926
Language:
English
URL:
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