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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Gomez, Michael Angelo, 1955- Exchanging our country marks. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1998 (DLC) 97021476 (OCoLC)36969764 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael A Gomez |
ISBN: | 0807861715 9780807861714 |
OCLC Number: | 45727625 |
Language Note: | English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 370 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE: Vesey's Challenge -- CHAPTER TWO: Time and Space -- CHAPTER THREE: Warriors, Charms, and Loas: Senegambia and the Bight of Benin -- CHAPTER FOUR: Prayin' on duh Bead: Islam in Early America -- CHAPTER FIVE: Societies and Stools: Sierra Leone and the Akan -- CHAPTER SIX: I Seen Folks Disappeah: The Igbo and West Central Africa -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Talking Half African: Middle Passage, Seasoning, and Language -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Tad's Query: Ethnicity and Class in African America CHAPTER NINE: Turning Down the Pot: Christianity and the African-Based CommunityCHAPTER TEN: The Least of These -- Appendix: Census Estimates for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, and 1830 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z |
Responsibility: | Michael A. Gomez. |
Abstract:
This study establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins, tracing the process by which African populations exchanged their distinct ethnic identities for one defined primarily by the conception of race.
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