{"id":21868,"date":"2012-03-25T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=21868"},"modified":"2013-08-16T02:06:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T02:06:54","slug":"an-odd-sense-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=21868","title":{"rendered":"An Odd Sense of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Odd Sense of Color<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Toulouse Street: Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans<\/a>
\n2012-03-24<\/p>\n

Mark Folse<\/strong><\/p>\n

OK, I just have to say it: it was Odd that three of the four panelists on the Tennessee Williams Festival<\/a> panel New Orleans Free People of Color<\/a><\/em> were white. The garrulous playwright John Guare<\/a> tried to steal the show and not in a good way, and managed to annoy mystery writer Barbara Hambly<\/a> when she disagreed with him but wouldn\u2019t stop talking long enough to let her say her piece. Guare put his hand on the back of her chair at some point and it was funny to see Hambly leaning away from him to the point of tipping over.<\/p>\n

Guare is the author of a successful Broadway play A Free Man of Color<\/a><\/em>, Hanbly has penned a dozen mysteries featuring the Creole private detective Benjamin January, and the panel was rounded out by Daniel Sharfstein<\/a>, author of The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America<\/a><\/em> and Gregory Osborne, a child of the Creole diaspora to Los Angeles in the post-World War II<\/a> period and an expert on the subject who manages the archives at the New Orleans public library.<\/p>\n

Sharfstein and Osborne thankfully stole the show away from Guare. Sharfstein\u2019s book drew out of a a stint of volunteer work in South Africa where he met a Black woman who had been registered as Colored (of mixed race) by a census taken who was a friend of the woman\u2019s father. He recounted a fascinating tale of a couple prosecuted f under South Carolina\u2019s miscegenation<\/a> laws, a charge from which they were exonerated after the state\u2019s Supreme Court ruled that it was impossible to determine if the woman\u2019s grandfather had himself been pure Black, which would have made her an octaroon and invalidated the marriage…<\/p>\n

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

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