{"id":538,"date":"2009-08-30T04:48:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T04:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=538"},"modified":"2016-07-13T13:40:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T13:40:19","slug":"exiles-at-home-the-struggle-to-become-american-in-creole-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog\/THOEXI.html\" target=\"_blank\">Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard University Press<br \/>\n<\/a>2009<br \/>\n400 pages<br \/>\n6-1\/8 x 9-1\/4 inches<br \/>\n19 halftones in 20 p mock insert<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780674023512<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/cola\/depts\/ams\/faculty\/st1992\" target=\"_blank\">Shirley Elizabeth Thompson<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor in American Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Texas, Austin<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog\/THOEXI.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/images\/jackets\/9780674023512-lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a> has always captured our imagination as an exotic city in its racial ambiguity and pursuit of <em>les<\/em> <em>bons temps<\/em>. \u00a0Despite its image as a place apart, the city played a key role in nineteenth-century America as a site for immigration and pluralism, the quest for equality, and the centrality of self-making.<\/p>\n<p>In both the literary imagination and the law, creoles of color navigated life on a shifting color line. As they passed among various racial categories and through different social spaces, they filtered for a national audience the meaning of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_revolution\" target=\"_blank\">French Revolution<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haitian_Revolution\" target=\"_blank\">Haitian Revolution of 1804<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction_era_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">Reconstruction<\/a>, and <em>de jure<\/em> segregation.<\/p>\n<p>Shirley Thompson offers a moving study of a world defined by racial and cultural double consciousness. In tracing the experiences of creoles of color, she illuminates the role ordinary Americans played in shaping an understanding of identity and belonging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans Harvard University Press 2009 400 pages 6-1\/8 x 9-1\/4 inches 19 halftones in 20 p mock insert Hardcover ISBN: 9780674023512 Shirley Elizabeth Thompson, Associate Professor in American Studies University of Texas, Austin New Orleans has always captured our imagination as an exotic city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,369,8,17,20],"tags":[201,340,1438,5551,200,202],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-creoles","tag-harvard-university-press","tag-new-orleans","tag-shirley-e-thompson","tag-shirley-elizabeth-thompson","tag-shirley-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48260,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/48260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}