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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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) 2002 Richard Wormser, Series producer, Co-writer Jim Crow was not a person, yet affected the lives of millions of people. Named after a popular 19th-century minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans, “Jim Crow” came to personify the system of government-sanctioned…
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The Gains and Losses of Passing for White – Ernest Torregano Creolegen 2015-05-31 Jari Honora, Founder and Consultant In 1912, Ernest Joseph Torregano, a thirty-year old New Orleans native, was a porter on the Southern Pacific Railroad. For about three years, Torregano had worked the run from New Orleans to San Francisco. After each successful…
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Mystery, and Discovery, on the Trail of a Creole Music Pioneer The New York Times 2015-05-28 Campbell Robertson, Southern correspondent PINEVILLE, La. — Somewhere among the thousands beneath a grassy hill here lies the body of Amédé Ardoin. He was singular in life: one of the greatest accordion players ever to come out of south…
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The Kidnapping of Mollie Digby: Was the Fair-Haired Stranger Actually Mollie? All Things Crime 2015-02-20 Darcia Helle In 1870, New Orleans was a city divided by politics, class, and race. The Civil War had left much of the south reeling, and now the government’s Radical Reconstruction attempted to force change by integrating the black population…
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era [Tejada Review] Washington Independent Review of Books 2015-01-15 Susan Tejada When a Crescent City toddler goes missing, the tensions of the post-Civil War South are exposed. Ross, Michael A., The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the…
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era Oxford University Press 2014-10-14 320 Pages 30 half-tones 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780199778805 Michael A. Ross, Associate Professor of History University of Maryland Offers a glimpse into the volatile racial world of Reconstruction era New Orleans Guides readers through…
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Erasing the Color Line: The Racial Formation of Creoles of Color and the Public School Integration Movement in New Orleans, 1867-1880 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2013 Mishio Yamanaka A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the master’s…
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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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The New Creole Movement Jambalaya Magazine & Clothing 2015-01-08 Julia Dumas There is a movement brewing. It is a movement with a mission to reclaim Louisiana Creole culture. Many Louisianians have been scarred by a painful past full of racism and colorism. Darker people were banned from claiming Creole heritage, if unable to pass the…
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‘Empire of Sin,’ by Gary Krist The New York Times Sunday Book Review 2014-11-06 Walter Isaacson, President and CEO Aspen Institute Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans By Gary Krist; Illustrated. 416 pp. Crown Publishers. $26. When Tom Anderson’s saloon opened in 1901, at the…