Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Quadroon Balls | LFOLKS (1985) Louisiana Public Broadcasting2022-01-05 This segment from the February 10, 1985, episode of the series “Folks” features Genevieve Stewart’s report on the history of the quadroon balls in 19th century New Orleans, clandestine events where white men met free women of color, who would become their mistresses. She visits the Orleans…
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Grand, Fancy, Superior” In the myth of Quadroon Balls women of color attended lavish dances with the hope of forming a plaçage relationships with eligible white men.
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Plaçage and the Performance of Whiteness: The Trial of Eulalie Mandeville, Free Colored Woman, of Antebellum New Orleans American Nineteenth Century History Volume 15, Issue 2, 2014 pages 187-209 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2014.959818 Carol Wilson, Arthur A. and Elizabeth R. Knapp Professor of American History Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland Depictions of plaçage, a type of concubinage found…
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Problems with Plaçage: Historical Imagination and Femmes de couleurs libres in Colonial and Antebellum New Orleans Bridges: A Journal of Student Research Coastal Carolina University Issue 3 (Winter 2009) Philip Whalen, Associate Professor of History Coastal Carolina University This essay compares two approaches to understanding the condition of free women of color who struggled to…
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In 1805, a New Orleans newspaper advertisement formally defined a new social institution, the infamous Quadroon Ball, in which prostitution and plaçage–a system of concubinage–converged. These elegant balls, limited to upper-class white men and free “quadroon” women, became interracial rendezvous that provided evening entertainment and the possibility of forming sexual liaisons in exchange for financial…