Event
Professor Mary Frances Berry, University of Pennsylvania
We Are Who We Say We Are: A Black Family’s Search for Home across the Atlantic World
DATE: Monday, November 16, 2015
TIME: 7:00 PM
LOCATION: Parkway Central Library, Montgomery Auditorium, 1901 Vine Street, 19103
We Are Who We Say We Are: A Black Family’s Search for Home across the Atlantic World offers a new angle of vision for looking at racial identity, demography and migration as themes of our national history. This Colored Creole family contains overlooked heroes and scoundrels and ordinary folks trying to survive and thrive. Their experiences and especially the racial choices made enlarges our understanding of passing or deciding not to pass in its various manifestations throughout our history and today. The book discusses shifting forms of identification within an extended familial network and constrained by law and social reality.