{"id":29434,"date":"2013-03-10T04:04:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T04:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29434"},"modified":"2013-03-20T19:37:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T19:37:12","slug":"nathan-crowell-on-racial-identity-gloucester-county-virginia-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29434","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Crowell on Racial Identity: Gloucester County, Virginia, revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/14\/nathan-crowell-on-racial-identity-gloucester-county-virginia-revisited\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Crowell on Racial Identity: Gloucester County, Virginia, revisited<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners<\/a><br \/>\n2013-01-14<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.txstate.edu\/history\/people\/faculty\/bynum.html\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria E. Bynum<\/a><\/strong>, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Texas State University, San Marcos<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Some time ago, in response to my 10 November 2011 post, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/10\/free-people-of-color-in-old-virginia-the-morris-family-of-gloucester-county-a-case-study\/\" target=\"_blank\">Free People of Color in Old Virginia: The Morris Family of Gloucester County<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0 (which I encourage you to read or reread) I received a long email message from Nathan Crowell, who traces his own mixed-heritage ancestry back to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gloucester_County,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Gloucester County<\/a>. Nathan shared not only his family research with me, but also certain insights that he gained over the years from listening to his ancestors\u2014particularly his grandmother: insights into what it meant to be a \u201cfree person of color\u201d in a slaveholding society, what it meant to be defined as \u201cblack\u201d when one\u2019s skin was fair. His remarks remind us that life in the Old South was far more complex than most of us realize, <strong>and that \u201crace\u201d was an imposed category of human existence that had no rational biological basis, but had very real legal, social, and psychological consequences that shaped the experiences and consciousness of all members of society.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With Nathan\u2019s permission, I have created the following post from his remarks&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/14\/nathan-crowell-on-racial-identity-gloucester-county-virginia-revisited\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Crowell on Racial Identity: Gloucester County, Virginia, revisited Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2013-01-14 Victoria E. Bynum, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Some time ago, in response to my 10 November 2011 post, \u201cFree People of Color in Old Virginia: The Morris Family of Gloucester County,\u201d\u00a0 (which I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,20,693],"tags":[13965,13964,13966,2317,1453,1454],"class_list":["post-29434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-gloucester-county","tag-nathan-crowell","tag-renegade-south","tag-renegade-south-histories-of-unconventional-southerners","tag-victoria-bynum","tag-victoria-e-bynum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29434","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=29434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}