Category: Louisiana

  • Black, White, Light, and Bright: A Narrative of Creole Color Past Narratives/Narratives Past Graduate Conference Stanford University, Stanford, California 2001-02-16 through 2001-02-18 20 pages Christopher N. Matthews, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hofstra University Much of the world of life is made real through the symbolic application of color, shade, hue, and other features of visual…

  • The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that 2010 Census population totals and demographic characteristics have been released for communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These data have provided the first look at population counts for small areas and race, Hispanic origin, voting age and housing unit data released from…

  • Fear and Desire: Regional Aesthetics and Colonial Desire in Kate Chopin’s Portrayals of the Tragic Mulatta Stereotype The Southern Literary Journal Volume 43, Number 1 (Fall 2010) pages 1-22 E-ISSN: 1534-1461 Print ISSN: 0038-4291 Dagmar Pegues The interrogation of the category of race in Kate Chopin’s fiction represents an essential dimension of regional aesthetics, and…

  • White By Definition: Social Classification in Creole Louisiana Rutgers University Press May 1986 325 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-2088-9 Virginia Dominguez, Professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I: The Legal Domain 2. Defining the Racial Structure 3. The Properties of Blood…

  • Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 41, Number 4, Spring 2011 pages 661-663 E-ISSN: 1530-9169, Print ISSN: 0022-1953 Mary Niall Mitchell, Associate Professor of History New Orleans University Shirley Elizabeth Thompson. Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans.…

  • Miscegenation and competing definitions of race in twentieth-century Louisiana Journal of Southern History Volume 71, Number 3 (August, 2005) pages 621-659 Michelle Brattain, Associate Professor of History Georgia State University MARCUS BRUCE CHRISTIAN, AN AUTHOR AND PROFESSOR AT DILLARD University, observed in the mid-nineteen-fifties that while New Orleans might be known for “gumbo, jambalaya, lagniappe,…

  • In Census, Young Americans Increasingly Diverse The New York Times 2011-02-04 Sabrina Tabernise WASHINGTON — Demographers sifting through new population counts released on Thursday by the Census Bureau say the data bring a pattern into sharper focus: Young Americans are far less white than older generations, a shift that demographers say creates a culture gap…

  • History and Current Status of the Houma Indians Midcontinent American Studies Journal Volume 6, Number 2 (Fall 1965) pages 149-163 Ann Fischer Tulane University Brewton Berry, in Almost White, reports that there are some 200 groups of “racial orphans” in the United States. Among these, those who have some claim to Indian ancestry are known as…

  • French110s: From Haiti to New Orleans John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Duke University Fall 2010 Deborah Jenson Haiti Lab: Undergraduate Opportunities The first Humanities Laboratory at Duke, one of the key goals of the Haiti Lab is to bring innovative, interdisciplinary research more fully into the undergraduate experience at Duke and, indeed, to invite undergraduates…

  • The “Sabines”: A Study of Racial Hybrids in a Louisiana Coastal Parish Social Forces Volume 29, Number 2 (December, 1950) pages 148-154 Vernon J. Parenton Roland J. Pellegrin Read before the thirteenth annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Biloxi, Mississippi, April 15, 1950. Historically, the position of the racial and  cultural  hybrid in rural American…