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Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South Paperback – March 30, 1998

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The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which African populations exchanged their distinct ethnic identities for one
defined primarily by the conception of race. He examines transformations in the politics, social structures, and religions of slave populations through 1830, by which time the contours of a new African American identity had begun to emerge.

After discussing specific ethnic groups in Africa, Gomez follows their movement to North America, where they tended to be amassed in recognizable concentrations within individual colonies (and, later, states). For this reason, he argues, it is possible to identify particular ethnic cultural influences and ensuing social formations that heretofore have been considered unrecoverable. Using sources pertaining to the African continent
as well as runaway slave advertisements, ex-slave narratives, and folklore, Gomez reveals concrete and specific links between particular African populations and their North American progeny, thereby shedding new light on subsequent African American social formation.

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The University of North Carolina Press
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March 30, 1998
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6.13 x 0.96 x 9.25 inches
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0807846945
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978-0807846940
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1580L
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With its legacy of brutality and of the horrific overseas passage, the transatlantic slave trade may be imagined as the kidnapping of Africans without regard to nationality or ethnicity. Based on his research, however, Michael A. Gomez suggests that Africans, upon arriving in America, were dispersed much more closely along ethnic and cultural lines than previously acknowledged. The underlying theme of his provocative work, Exchanging Our Country Marks, is that while blacks eventually replaced their African ethnic identities with new racial ones after arriving in the American South, they retained much of their original cultures far longer than was originally suspected. Some of his most interesting evidence of this comes in the form of runaway-slave advertisements, which identified the slaves by their ethnic roots ("Dinah, an Ebo wench that speaks very good English"). By scrutinizing ex-slave narratives, stories, music, and even the location and nature of slave rebellions, Gomez pieces together a genealogy of blacks in the American South, attempting to examine their notions of identity. Of course, much is based on significant speculation, a fact that only underscores the difficulty of such scholarship. Gomez manages to present a wide range of information clearly as he expands on a wealth of recent research regarding the slave trade and the history of blacks in America, making Exchanging Our Country Marks a vast and creative exploration of African identity in the United States from 1526 to 1830.

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[A] conceptual "tour de force". No brief review can do justice to the nuances and complexities of Gomez's argument.

"Southern Cultures"

Gomez gracefully and distinctively enlivens slaves understandings of themselves as Igbo, Muslims, parents, children, and--eventually-- Africans and Americans.

"Journal of Southern History"

[A] conceptual "tour de force," No brief review can do justice to the nuances and complexities of Gomez's argument.

"Southern Cultures"

ÝA¨ conceptual "tour de force." No brief review can do justice to the nuances and complexities of Gomez's argument.

"Southern Cultures"

ÝA¨ rare and creative inquiry into the origins of African identity in the United States from 1526 to 1830.

"Gaither Reporter"

"Gomez gracefully and distinctively enlivens slavesU understandings of themselves as Igbo, Muslims, parents, children, and--eventually--UAfricansU and Americans.

"Journal of Southern History""

[A] conceptual "tour de force." No brief review can do justice to the nuances and complexities of Gomez's argument.

"Southern Cultures"

[A] rare and creative inquiry into the origins of African identity in the United States from 1526 to 1830.

"Gaither Reporter"

Deeply researched in both African and North American sources.

"nternational Journal of African Historical Studies"

Gomez has yoked his admirable grasp of recent advances in African historiography with a subtle and sensitive reading of slavery.

"American Historical Review"

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The University of North Carolina Press; New edition (March 30, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807846945
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807846940
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1580L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 0.96 x 9.25 inches

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and the individual chapters in the latter half are mostly pretty good (of special interest

Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2017

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This was okay? It felt really disjointed in parts and sometimes was hard to follow, but I do think this makes a really important intervention in terms of tracing shifts in identity and identity formation, and the individual chapters in the latter half are mostly pretty good (of special interest: the chapter on language and the chapter on Islam among enslaved African-born folks were both really interesting and cool!) Ultimately I didn't love this, but I do think it does important work. (I'm not an African historian, for the record, which I think really impacted my reading of it, because so much of it was so new. Also the 'conclusion' chapter was absolutely WILD.)

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African American Ethnic Identity Formation in the United States Persuasively Explicated

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Exchanging Our Country Marks is a must read for anyone who has ever asked, and sincerely wanted an answer to the question, "Who, exactly, are the African Americans?" This is the book that I have been missing in my studies of African American ethnic/racial identity, and I am just now finding it, more than 10 years after its publication. Among the many illuminating points, an understanding of how race became the primary means by which an emerging ethnic collectivity self-identified was one of the greatest gems gifted. After reading this book, you will come to understand that one simply cannot rightly talk about African American ethnic identity without talking about Black racial identity. Many scholars (myself included) try to disentangle ethnicity from race and operationalize each so that they become mutually exclusive social constructs. This book illustrates why, when it comes to the matter of the African Americans, this endeavor is a futile one. I highly recommend this text along with Slave Community, Slave Religion, and Slave Culture.

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One of the Best Black History Book Ever

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2017

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One of the most important and thoroughly written books on blqck history with regards to slavery that ive ever read. Answers a lot of questions ive held for most of my life...questions ive had about where exactly do we come from and what was it like to negotiate culture, language and relgion amongst ouselves as slaves from the moment of sale or capture through placements in the Americas. Extremely enlightening book.

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this book is a revelation

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2015

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This book is just what I needed to help me understand more about slavery and the people caught it its terrible grip.

There is a section in the book about recently arrived African people and their attempts to escape from their terrible situation. The author expressed this desperate hope is such a fashion that tears came to my eyes and I felt that for the first time I had some inkling of the terror they were experiencing.

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Big Sistah Patty

Excellent and Highly Educational!

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2007

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This is an excellent book. I want every one of African descent to read this book. It is fantastic. This book is in my 10 list.

Early on the Africans were well aware of their ethnic identities, but over time, they were forgotten, and a new people emerged. Now this took generations. It was a slow and torturous process.

If you want to educate yourself about black folks in America and where they came from, and how they evolved, read this book.

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History of the Monopoly of the enslavement of a people

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Excellent book

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Charles N. Jamison, Jr.

If interested in this subject matter, this is a must

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2015

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Extremely detailed and academic it is slow going in the beginning but once it gets going it is quite revelatory

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Ralph M. Jones

outstanding

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2013

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Gomez is an outstanding and insightful historian of African and African American Cultural. He reveals numerous topics that
tantalize the reader and instigates the thirst for more.

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