Assumed identities [[electronic resource] ] : 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 ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827121403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: College Station [Tex.], : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-299-05211-8; 1-60344-319-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (165 p.)
• Collana: The Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; ; no. 41
• Altri autori (Persone): GarrigusJohn D; MorrisChristopher (Christopher Charles)
• Disciplina: 305.800973
• Soggetti: Group identity - America - History; Eurocentrism - America - History; Nationalism - America - History; Ethnic relations - Religious aspects - History - 17th century; Slave trade - Brazil - History - 19th century; America Race relations History; Haiti Ethnic relations History 18th century; Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804; Virginia Ethnic relations History 17th century; West Indies, British Ethnic relations History 18th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: race and identity in the new world / Franklin W. Knight -- "Thy coming fame, Oge! is sure": new evidence on Oge'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 Michel Hebrard -- In memoriam, Evan Anders.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.