Category: Louisiana

  • The Forgotten People: Cane River’s Creoles of Color (revised edition) Louisiana State University Press November 2013 (First published in 1977) 480 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches 25 halftones, 3 maps, 3 charts Paperback ISBN: 9780807137130 Gary B. Mills (1944–2002), Professor of History University of Alabama Revised by: Elizabeth Shown Mills Foreword by: H. Sophie Burton…

  • Not All Blacks Are African American: The Importance of Viewing Advisees as Individuals in a Culturally Mosaic Context The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal Pennsylvania State University 2013-08-15 Mary M. Livingston, Professor of Psychology Louisiana Tech University Latoya Pierce, Assistant professor of Psychology Louisiana Tech University Lou’uan Gollop-Brown, Assistant Professor of Psychology Louisiana Tech University…

  • Plessy v. Ferguson: Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America University Press of Kansas April 2012 224 pages 5-1⁄2 x 8-1⁄2 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-1846-0 Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-1847-7 Williamjames Hull Hoffer, Associate Professor of History Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep…

  • They Wouldn’t Allow Us to Use Daddy’s Last Name: A Family Historian’s Curiosity Leads to Revolutionary Results Bayou Talk Newspaper Volume 25, Number 7 (July 2013) pages 1-8 Anita R. Paul Most family history researchers know that surnames are an important key to finding ancestors. They also know that names can often lead to dead…

  • Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World University of Pennsylvania Press November 2013 304 pages 6 x 9; 3 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-4551-6 E-book ISBN: 978-0-8122-0873-3 Edited by: Cécile Vidal, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for North American Studies École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris Located at the junction of…

  • Louisiana Repeals Black Blood Law The New York Times 1983-07-06 Frances Frank Marcus, Special to the New York Times NEW ORLEANS, July 5—  Gov. David C. Treen today signed legislation repealing a Louisiana statute that established a mathematical formula to determine if a person was black. The law establishing the formula, passed by state legislators…

  • What Makes you Black? Ebony Magazine Volume 38, Number 3 (January 1983) pages 115-118 Vague definition of race is the basis for court battles Imagine going to get a passport so you and your spouse can take a vacation in South America. Its all a formality, you reason; people just want to make sure you’re…

  • Mixed Breeds Are Not Negroes and May Mingle With Whites The Weekly Messenger St. Martinville, Louisiana 1910-04-30 page 3, column 2 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers The Daily Picayune The Supreme Court of Louisiana by a vote of three to two, Justices Nicholls and Land dissenting, has decided that the state law prohibiting concubinage…

  • My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune: A Memoir of the Civil War Era LSU Press April 2001 (Originally published in 1872) 184 pages 5.50 x 9.00 inches 3 halftones ISBN10: 0807126896, ISBN13: 9780807126899 Jean-Charles Houzeau (1820-1888) Edited by David C. Rankin Translated by Gerard F. Denault When Belgian scientist Jean-Charles Houzeau arrived in New…

  • Louisiana’s “Creoles of Color”: Ethnicity, Marginality, and Identity Social Science Quarterly Volume 73 Issue 3, September 1992 pages 615- James H. Dormon, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History and American Studies University of Southwestern Louisiana This article traces the ethnohistory of Creoles of color, beginning with an examination of the social-historical order out of which they…