{"id":14730,"date":"2011-07-04T21:45:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T21:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14730"},"modified":"2014-10-07T19:45:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T19:45:51","slug":"deichthal-and-urbains-lettres-sur-la-race-noire-et-la-race-blanche-race-gender-and-reconciliation-after-slave-emancipation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14730","title":{"rendered":"D’Eichthal and Urbain’s Lettres sur la race noire et la race blanche: Race, Gender, and Reconciliation after Slave Emancipation"},"content":{"rendered":"

D’Eichthal and Urbain’s Lettres sur la race noire et la race blanche: Race, Gender, and Reconciliation after Slave Emancipation<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nineteenth-Century French Studies<\/a>
\nVolume 39, Numbers 3 & 4<\/a> (Spring-Summer 2011)
\npages 240-258
\nE-ISSN: 1536-0172 Print ISSN: 0146-7891<\/p>\n

Naomi J. Andrews<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History
\nSanta Clara University<\/em><\/p>\n

This article is a close reading of Gustave d’Eichthal <\/a>and Ishmayl Urbain’s<\/a> Lettres sur la race noire et la race blanche<\/em> (1839), written during the decade prior to the “second” French emancipation in 1848. The article argues that the hierarchical gendering of race described in the letters is reflective of metropolitan concerns about potential for social disorder accompanying slave emancipation in the French colonies. In arguing for social reconciliation through interracial marriage and its offspring, the symbolically charged figure of the mulatto<\/a>, the authors deployed gendered and familial language to describe a stable post-emancipation society.<\/p>\n

Read or purchase the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

D’Eichthal and Urbain’s Lettres sur la race noire et la race blanche: Race, Gender, and Reconciliation after Slave Emancipation Nineteenth-Century French Studies Volume 39, Numbers 3 & 4 (Spring-Summer 2011) pages 240-258 E-ISSN: 1536-0172 Print ISSN: 0146-7891 Naomi J. Andrews, Assistant Professor of History Santa Clara University This article is a close reading of Gustave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,459,1196,8,6940],"tags":[96,6764,6768,6767,6766,6765],"class_list":["post-14730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-slavery","tag-france","tag-gustave-deichthal","tag-ishmayl-urbain","tag-ismael-urbain","tag-naomi-andrews","tag-naomi-j-andrews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}