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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Category: Louisiana
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Jane Doe v. State of Louisiana (1985) Justice Ward delivered the opinion of the Court. This appeal is brought by several members of the Guillory family, children and grandchildren of Simea Fretty and Dominique Guillory, both deceased. Six of the appellants, Marie Bernice Guillory Rougeau, Armet Guillory Fontenot, Lucy Elizabeth Guillory Parker, Suzy Elizabeth Rita…
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This Movie Was Nearly Lost. Now They’re Fighting to Save It. The New York Times 2016-09-23 John Anderson Richard Romain in the 1982 film “Cane River.” Credit IndieCollect When it debuted in 1982, “Cane River” was already a rarity: a drama by an independent black filmmaker, financed by wealthy black patrons and dealing with race…
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In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans from just before the Civil War to the end of Reconstruction.
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Modern American Spiritualism blossomed in the 1850s and continued as a viable faith into the 1870s. Because of its diversity and openness to new cultures and religions, New Orleans provided fertile ground to nurture Spiritualism, and many séance circles flourished in the Creole Faubourgs of Tremé and Marigny as well as the American sector of…
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case Tripod: New Orleans At 300 89.9 FM WWNO New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-06-16 Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Producer The Provost Guard in New Orleans taking up Vagrant Negroes. (1974.25.9.190) THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION It was June. It was hot. Kids were out of school, keeping busy outdoors. Parents were inside. Kind…
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A Creole melting pot: the politics of language, race, and identity in southwest Louisiana, 1918-45 University of Sussex September 2015 353 pages Christophe Landry Doctorate of Philosophy in History Southwest Louisiana Creoles underwent great change between World Wars I and II as they confronted American culture, people, and norms. This work examines that cultural transformation,…