Tag: Louisiana

  • “They Call It Marriage”: the Louisiana Interracial Family and the Making of American Legitimacy Book Manuscript In Progress Diana Irene Williams, Assistant Professor of History, Law and Gender Studies University of Southern California Winner of the 2008 William Nelson Cromwell Dissertation Prize in Legal History. “They Call it Marriage” examines interracial marriage between black women…

  • Commentary: Living in a Mixed-Race America Essence.com Essence Magazine 2009-10-20 June Cross, Assistant Professor of Journalism Columbia University As if being married had anything to do with Blacks and Whites producing mixed-race children. That was my first thought upon reading that an elected official in Louisiana had refused to marry a Black man and a…

  • Written Out of History Pomona College Magazine Pomona College, Claremont, California Fall 2002 Volume 39, Number 1 Michael Balchunas Spurred by a glimpse of family history, Professor Sid Lemelle is bringing to light a little-known aspect of the African Diaspora. When the new people moved in, all eyes were upon them. There were comments about…

  • Legal Transplants: Slavery and the Civil Law in Louisiana University of Southern California Legal Studies Working Paper Series Working Paper 32 May 2009 37 pages Ariela J. Gross, Professor of Law and History University of Southern California Law School Can Louisiana tell us something about civil law vs. common law regimes of slavery? What can…

  • Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country University Press of Mississippi 1994 192 pages Paper ISBN: 0878059490, ISBN 13: 9780878059492 Carl A. Brasseaux, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism University of Louisiana, Lafayette Claude F. Oubre Keith P. Fontenot Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of…

  • Bayou Folk Prometheus Books Originally Published by Houghton Mifflin in 1894 Pages: 286 Paperback ISBN: 1-57392-975-1 Kate Chopin The author who today is probably best known for her novel The Awakening initially established her literary reputation with short stories about life in rural Louisiana during the late nineteenth century. Born Katherine O’Flaherty in St. Louis,…

  • Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity (review) The American Indian Quarterly Volume 33, Number 4 Fall 2009 E-ISSN: 1534-1828 Print ISSN: 0095-182X DOI: 10.1353/aiq.0.0078 Gary C. Cheek Jr. Jolivétte, Andrew J., Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity, Lexington Books, 2006. “Who is white?” Jolivétte asks in the first chapter…

  • The Louisiana Metoyers American Visions June, 2000 Elizabeth Shown Mills Gary B. Mills (1944-2002) The Metoyer family of Louisiana provides an intriguing ample of the degree to which class, race and economic lines were blurred in early America. The Metoyers were both slaves and masters; in that regard, they were not unique. They were singular…

  • Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away from her master and surrendered herself to the parish jail for protection. Blue-eyed and blond, Morrison successfully convinced white society that she was one of them.

  • Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity Lexington Books an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers December 2006 Cloth: 0-7391-1896-X / 978-0-7391-1896-2 Paper: 0-7391-1897-8 / 978-0-7391-1897-9 Andrew J. Jolivétte, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies San Francisco State University Foreword by Paula Gunn Allen Louisiana Creoles examines the recent efforts of the Louisiana…