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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Tag: New Orleans
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans Harvard University Press March 2012 448 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780674059870 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 19 halftones, 2 maps Lawrence N. Powell, Professor of History Tulane University This is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing…
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Ownership, Entrepreneurship, and Identity: The Gens de Couleur Libres and the Architecture of Antebellum New Orleans, 1830-1850 Graham Foundation Chicago, Illinois 2011 The recipient of the 2011 Carter Manny Award for doctoral dissertation writing is Tara Dudley, The University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture This dissertation examines the architectural activities of New…
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Investing in Citizenship: Free Men of Color of Color and the case against Citizens Bank ~ Antebellum Louisiana University of New Orleans December 2011 58 pages Hannah J. Francis A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts…
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Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization LSU Press September 1992 352 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780807117743 Edited by: Arnold R. Hirsch, University Research Professor of History University of New Orleans Joseph Logsdon This collection of six original essays explores the peculiar ethnic composition and history of New Orleans, which the authors persuasively…
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Historian Unmasks Quadroon Myth New Wave Tulane University News 2011-08-17 Carol J. Schlueter Historian Emily Clark has been here before, plowing through New Orleans archival documents from the early 1800s, handwritten in French. Her latest search has unveiled truths about a group of women that Clark says history has maligned: free women of color. “I…
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Catholic records of slave baptisms in colonial New Orleans go online New Orleans Times-Picayune 2011-02-01 Bruce Nolan, Beat Reporter On Sunday, the 6th of May, 1798, an enslaved New Orleans woman named only Manon, owned by Mr. LeBlanc, presented her 2-year-old child, Antoine Joseph, at St. Louis Cathedral on the Plaza de Armas to be…
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Re-Writing Race in Early American New Orleans Miranda n°5 (December 2011) Nathalie Dessens, Professor of American History and Civilization Université Toulouse 2, Le Mirail This article examines the representation of the racial pattern and pattern of race relations in early American New Orleans. Starting with a historical and historiographical contextualization, the article shows that race…
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The ‘white’ slave children of New Orleans: Images of pale mixed-race slaves used to drum up sympathy among wealthy donors in 1860s Daily Mail 2012-02-28 When eight former slaves aimed to drum up support for struggling African-American schools in the 1860s, they believed they had just the thing. In order to garner sympathy –…
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We as Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson Pelican Publishing Company 2003 176 pages 5½ x 8½ 20 photos – Notes – Index ISBN: 1-58980-120-2 EAN: 978-1-58980-120-2 hc Keith Weldon Medley In June 1892, a thirty-year-old shoemaker named Homer Plessy bought a first-class railway ticket from his native New Orleans to Covington, north of Lake Pontchartrain. The…