Tag: New Orleans

  • Free Soldiers of Color The New York Times 2012-02-17 Donald R. Shaffer, Lecturer in History Upper Iowa University and blogger at Civil War Emancipation On Feb. 15, 1862, Louisiana dissolved all its militia units as part of a military reorganization law. Among the organizations disbanded was a militia unique in the Confederacy, the 1st Louisiana…

  • Opinion: What does Blackness look like? Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-21 Yaba Blay, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Editor’s note: Yaba Blay, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Africana studies who teaches courses at Lafayette College. Her research focuses on black identity, with…

  • Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans Johns Hopkins University Press 2009 352 pages 7 halftones Hardback ISBN: 9780801886805 Jennifer M. Spear, Associate Professor of History Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Winner, 2009 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Lousiana History, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association…

  • The “Quadroon-Plaçage” Myth of Antebellum New Orleans: Anglo-American (Mis)interpretations of a French-Caribbean Phenomenon Journal of Social History Published Online: 2011-11-13 DOI: 10.1093/jsh/shr059 Kenneth Aslakson, Assistant Professor of History Union College, Schenectady, New York Although Thomas Jefferson’s likely affair with his slave, Sally Hemmings, has sparked controversy since James Callender first made it public in 1802,…

  • Oscar James Dunn: A Case Study in Race & Politics in Reconstruction Louisiana University of New Orleans December 2011 296 pages Brian Mitchell A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Studies The study of…

  • Resistance, Silence, and Placées: Charles Bon’s Octoroon Mistress and Louisa Picquet American Literature Volume 79, Number 1 (March 2007) pages 85-112 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-2006-072 Stephanie Li, Assistant Professor of English University of Rochester In 1850, Mary Walker, a free woman of color, filed a petition in the Fourth District Court of New Orleans to enslave herself…

  • A Free Man of Color Grove/Atlantic, Inc. October 2011 112 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4566-6 John Guare John Guare’s new play is astonishing, raucous, and panoramic. A Free Man of Color is set in boisterous New Orleans prior to the historic Louisiana Purchase. Before law and order took hold and class,…

  • Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana Lousiana State University Press 2004-10-30 344 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches / 8 halftones, 3 maps ISBN-10: 0807130265; ISBN-13: 978-0807130261 Caryn Cossé Bell, Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Lowell Jules and Frances Landry Award With the Federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, Afro-Creole leaders…

  • I Am What I Say I Am: Racial and Cultural Identity among Creoles of Color in New Orleans University of New Orleans 2009-05-15 62 pages Nikki Dugar 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 in History…

  • Plessy and Ferguson unveil plaque today marking their ancestors’ actions New Orleans Times-Picayune 2009-02-11 Katy Reckdahl Today, Plessy versus Ferguson becomes Plessy and Ferguson, when descendants of opposing parties in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court segregation case stand together to unveil a plaque at the former site of the Press Street Railroad Yards. Standing behind…