Wanted! A Nation! by Claire Bourhis-Mariotti

Wanted! A Nation! by Claire Bourhis-Mariotti

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Presents a complex panorama of the emergence of African American identity and argues that Haiti should be considered as an essential prism to understand how African Americans forged their identity in the nineteenth century.

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Wanted! A Nation! by Claire Bourhis-Mariotti

Presents a complex panorama of the emergence of African American identity and argues that Haiti should be considered as an essential prism to understand how African Americans forged their identity in the nineteenth century.
This is a terrific book that brings new material and interpretations to a burgeoning field of study surrounding the links between the United States and Haiti and the place of Haiti in African American practice and thoughtIt places anglophone and francophone writing and scholarship into dialogue in an important and innovative way." - Laurent Dubois, author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of History

CLAIRE BOURHIS-MARIOTTI is a professor of African American history and the codirector of the research unit TransCrit at the University of Paris 8. In addition to Wanted! A Nation! (Georgia), she is the author of Isaac Mason: Une vie d’esclave and coeditor of Writing History from the Margins: African Americans and the Quest for Freedom. She lives and writes in France.

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ISBN 13 9780820362700
ISBN 10 0820362700
Title Wanted! A Nation!
Author Claire Bourhis-Mariotti
Series Race In The Atlantic World
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Year published 2023-12-15
Number of pages 277
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