Category: Louisiana

  • The House on Bayou Road: Atlantic Creole Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries The Journal of American History Volume 100, Issue 1 (June 2013) pages 21-45 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jat082 Pierre Force, Professor of French and History Columbia University n 1813 a free man of color named Charles Decoudreau living in New Orleans went to court…

  • The Reading Life: Authors Emily Clark, Bill Loehfelm And Dennis Formento The Reading Life WWNO 89.9FM University of New Orleans 2013-04-23 Susan Larson, Host Emily Clark, Clement Chambers Benenson Professor of American Colonial History; Associate Professor of History Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Emily Clark This week on The Reading Life, Susan talks with Tulane…

  • Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a “quadroon,” she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich…

  • Between 1920 and 1949, Collins documented African American life, capturing images of graduations, communions, and recitals, and allowing her subjects to help craft their images. She supported herself and her family throughout the Great Depression and in the process created an enduring pictorial record of her particular time and place. Collins left behind a visual…

  • A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana University Press of Mississippi 2012-09-20 450 pages 9 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches, 400+ color illustrations, foreword, introduction, bibliography, index of artists Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61703-690-3   Edited By: Michael Sartisky, President Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities J. Richard Gruber, Director Emeritus Ogden Museum…

  • In “Spectacular Wickedness,” Emily Epstein Landau examines the social history of this famed district within the cultural context of developing racial, sexual, and gender ideologies and practices.

  • The Color Question Like Banquo’s Ghost The Indianapolis Recorder: A Weekly Newspaper Devoted the to Best Interest of the Negroes Saturday, 1910-05-07 page 1, column 3 Source: Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis: University Library: Program of Digital Scholarship There Is Virtue In Being a Full Blood Negro—Louisiana Supreme Court Makes Important Ruling. According to a decision…

  • Anti-Miscegenation Movement Columbus Enquirer-Sun Columbus, Georgia 1886-09-24 page 5, column 3 Source: Digital Library of Georgia Organization In Louisiana to Prevent the Intermarriage of Whites and Blacks New Orleans. September 20.—A practical movement has been inaugurated in Bossier parish, in this state, for the abolition of miscegenation. There have been during the past year or…

  • New Orleans and the African Diaspora American Historical Association From the Suppliment to the 127th Annual Meeting 2012-12-23 Laura Rosanne Adderley, Associate Professor of History Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Many people conceptualize the study of the “African diaspora” as focused on black experience beyond or separate from “African American” experience in the United States.…

  • Rosa Mahier’s Freedom: Identity and the Maintenance of Liberty in Antebellum Louisiana 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 Saturday, 2013-01-05: 14:50 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom I (Roosevelt New Orleans) Paper in AHA Session 220: Manipulating Freedom: Liberty, Enslavement, and the Quest for Power in the Southwestern…