Tag: Emily Clark

  • New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists Religion Dispatches 2016-09-20 Paul Harvey, Distinguished Professor of History University of Colorado “Ladder of Progress,” a drawing added to the archive of the Cercle Harmonique by René Grandjean, the circle’s first archivist. Emily Clark’s new work, A Luminous Brotherhood, is an extensive study of a subject that has weirdly…

  • Judith Weisenfeld’s “New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration” is, in short, a marvelous book…

  • TriPod Mythbusters: Quadroon Balls And Plaçage Tripod WWNO 89.9 FM New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-09-22 Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Host There is a common myth told about 19th-century New Orleans. It goes something like this: Imagine you’re in an elegant dance hall in New Orleans in the early 1800s. Looking around, you see a large group of white men and free…

  • The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World by Emily Clark (review) [Wright] Early American Literature Volume 49, Number 1, 2014 page 257-262 DOI: 10.1353/eal.2014.0015 Nazera Sadiq Wright, Assistant Professor of English University of Kentucky The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in…

  • As an American, I follow my roots like trails across the globe. My mother is from Kansas and is of German descent, and my deceased father was black with roots in North Carolina, and before then, Africa. Arguably you can trace all of us back to Africa. But my parents’ union created me: a black…

  • Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World University of Pennsylvania Press November 2013 304 pages 6 x 9; 3 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-4551-6 E-book ISBN: 978-0-8122-0873-3 Edited by: Cécile Vidal, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for North American Studies École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris Located at the junction of…

  • The Reading Life: Authors Emily Clark, Bill Loehfelm And Dennis Formento The Reading Life WWNO 89.9FM University of New Orleans 2013-04-23 Susan Larson, Host Emily Clark, Clement Chambers Benenson Professor of American Colonial History; Associate Professor of History Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Emily Clark This week on The Reading Life, Susan talks with Tulane…

  • Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a “quadroon,” she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich…

  • 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…