We Are Who We Say We Are: A Black Family's Search for Home Across the Atlantic World

by Mary Frances Berry

Book Overview

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.

Author Mary Frances Berry, a well-known expert in the field,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199978336
• ISBN13: 9780199978335
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.1"