Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Tag: Darryl Barthé Jr.

Becoming American in Creole New Orleans, 1896–1949

2021-08-12

Darryl Barthé Jr.’s “Becoming American in Creole New Orleans” moves the history of New Orleans’ Creole community forward, documenting the process of “becoming American” through Creoles’ encounters with Anglo-American modernism.
The first Africans to arrive in North America did not arrive as slaves and almost certainly did not conceive of themselves as “negros.”

2012-04-22

The first Africans to arrive in North America did not arrive as slaves and almost certainly did not conceive of themselves as “negros.” The word, appropriated from the Latin word for “black” was a descriptive device divorced from any cultural or historical context for these people. Over time, that descriptive device would become a social…