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Title 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]
Edition 1st ed
Published [College Station, Tex.] : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A & M University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 152 pages)
Series The Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; no. 41
Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 41.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Group identity -- America -- History
Eurocentrism -- America -- History
Nationalism -- America -- History
Ethnic relations -- Religious aspects -- History -- 17th century
Slave trade -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations
Ethnic relations -- Religious aspects
Eurocentrism
Group identity
Nationalism
Race relations
Slave trade
SUBJECT America -- Race relations -- History
Haiti -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 18th century
Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058354
Virginia -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 17th century
West Indies, British -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 18th century
Subject America
Brazil
Haiti
Virginia
West Indies -- British West Indies
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Garrigus, John D.
Morris, Christopher (Christopher Charles)
LC no. 2010002446
ISBN 9781603443197
1603443193
1299052118
9781299052116