Exchanging Our Country Marks

“Exchanging Our Country Marks will be an important addition to the literature on how Africans brought to this country developed into African Americans in their crucial first generations on American soil. Gomez’s use of folktales is imaginative and a vital contribution to understanding the intellectual environment in which African American society was formed. His strong and extensive background in African history makes Gomez a fine candidate to write this book.”—John K. Thornton, Millersville University of Pennsylvania

“This very important book deepens our knowledge about the major African ethnic groups important to the cultural formation of the United States over time and place and reframes the discourse on African American cultures.”—Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Rutgers University