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  1. archive.org/details/wearewho

    "We Are Who We Say We Are": A Black Family's Search for Home Across the Atlantic World by Mary Frances Berry

    Topics
    #antiblackness, #peopleofcolor, #slavetrade, #transatlanticslavetrade, #creole, #creolization, #unitedstatesofamerika, #Haiti, #Cuba, #louisiana, #california, #europe, #racialpassing, #whitepassing, #miscegenation, #colorline, #migration, #emigration, #immigration, #amerikanhistory, #historyoftheamerikas, #genealogy

    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.

  2. Notes on Mermaids and Passing As Human

     

     
    Created half to rise, and half to fall;
    Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
    Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled:
    The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
    — Alexander Pope, “Essay on Man, Epistle II”
     

    There’s much to say about the allegorical poten

    lunastationquarterly.com/notes

    #Enclaves:ABlackFemmeDreams #blackliterature #colorism #mermaids #passing #whitepassing