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"We Are Who We Say We Are": A Black Family's Search for Home Across the Atlantic World by Mary Frances Berry

Topics
#antiblackness, #peopleofcolor, #slavetrade, #transatlanticslavetrade, #creole, #creolization, #unitedstatesofamerika, #Haiti, #Cuba, #louisiana, #california, #europe, #racialpassing, #whitepassing, #miscegenation, #colorline, #migration, #emigration, #immigration, #amerikanhistory, #historyoftheamerikas, #genealogy

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.