{"id":22024,"date":"2012-03-29T01:25:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T01:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22024"},"modified":"2013-09-07T21:44:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T21:44:04","slug":"historian-unmasks-quadroon-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22024","title":{"rendered":"Historian Unmasks Quadroon Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/tulane.edu\/news\/newwave\/081711_quadroon.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Historian Unmasks Quadroon Myth<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tulane.edu\/news\/newwave\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Wave<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tulane.edu\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tulane University News<\/a><br \/>\n2011-08-17<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:cjs@tulane.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Carol J. Schlueter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian <a href=\"http:\/\/history.tulane.edu\/web\/people.asp?id=EmilyClark.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Clark<\/a> has been here before, plowing through <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to bring them to the attention of history again,\u201d says Clark, an associate professor who holds the Clement Chambers Benenson Professorship in American Colonial History at Tulane.<\/p>\n<p>Funding from a state Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars (ATLAS) grant has allowed Clark to extend a sabbatical and work on a new book, <em>The Strange History of the American Quadroon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Myths abound about \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=9004\" target=\"_blank\">quadroon balls<\/a>\u201d in early-19th-century New Orleans in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1144\" target=\"_blank\">quadroons<\/a>\u2014described by Clark as \u201ca name for any woman who seemed to be of mixed race\u201d\u2014were presented to groups of white men. With marriages between the two groups forbidden, what supposedly resulted was <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7657\" target=\"_blank\">pla\u00e7age<\/a><\/em>, a contractual living-together arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>But when Clark went looking in the archives, she found something else&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/tulane.edu\/news\/newwave\/081711_quadroon.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,369,8,20,25],"tags":[10227,10228,10229,1438,3850,10230],"class_list":["post-22024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-carol-j-schlueter","tag-carol-schlueter","tag-emily-clark","tag-new-orleans","tag-quadroon-balls","tag-tulane-university-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22024","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=22024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}