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Author:

Berry, Mary Frances, author.

Title:

"We are who we say we are" : a Black family's search for home across the Atlantic world / Mary Frances Berry.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xviii, 206 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Snaer, Louis Antoine,--1842-1917--Family.
African American families--Biography.
Free African Americans--Biography.
Creoles--America--Biography.
African Americans--Genealogy.
African Americans--Race identity.
Blacks--America--History.--History.
Passing (Identity)--America--History.
New Orleans (La.)--Biography.
California--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Becoming colored Creole -- Becoming Americans -- Family troubles -- Fighting for democracy -- Becoming "Negroes" -- Opportunity and tragedy in Iberia Parish -- Mulattoes and colored Creoles -- Just Americans -- At home or away : we are who we say we are -- Epilogue: Becoming "Black."

Summary:

"Supplement text for courses in African-American History and History of Immigration. The Afro-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"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0199978336
9780199978335

OCLC:

(OCoLC)890107223

LCCN:

2014029007

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)