AHA Session 65
Friday, January 6, 2023: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Grand Ballroom Salon E (Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 5th Floor)
Chair:
Rashauna Johnson, University of Chicago
Panel:
Leslie Alexander, Arizona State University
Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh
Butch Ware, University of California, Santa Barbara
Margaret Washington, Cornell University
Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh
Butch Ware, University of California, Santa Barbara
Margaret Washington, Cornell University
Comment:
Michael A. Gomez, New York University
Session Abstract
This roundtable will reflect on Michael Gomez’s Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South. Published in 1998, it remains a foundational text in African diasporic history, a fulcrum that connects scholarship on African life and culture in the Americas to ongoing debates about the making and practice of diaspora. This roundtable will assess the book, its impact, and its place in the historiography, as well as think about future directions in the study of Africans in North America.
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