{"id":54014,"date":"2017-05-28T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54014"},"modified":"2017-05-28T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T18:00:08","slug":"after-the-first-african-slaves-arrived-at-jamestown-virginia-a-population-of-mixed-race-blacks-emerged-their-masters-and-fellow-slaves-celebrated-their-exotic-features-not-quite-african","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54014","title":{"rendered":"After the first African slaves arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, a population of mixed-race blacks emerged. Their masters and fellow slaves celebrated their exotic features \u2013 not quite African, but not exactly white."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>After the first African slaves arrived at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamestown,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jamestown, Virginia<\/a>, a population of mixed-race blacks emerged. Their masters and fellow slaves celebrated their exotic features \u2013 not quite African, but not exactly white. The women <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~psearls\/johnson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">were called<\/a> \u201cfancy girls\u201d and paraded at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=9004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quadroon balls<\/a>, events for wealthy white men to meet and mingle with them. Lighter-skinned black men, meanwhile, were dubbed \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/407264.The_Color_Complex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">run \u2018round men<\/a>\u201d because, with their fairer skin, they could supposedly have their pick of any woman in the black community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ronald Hall, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53936\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Too pretty to play? Stephen Curry and the light-skinned black\u00a0athlete<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Conversation<\/em>, April 30, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/too-pretty-to-play-stephen-curry-and-the-light-skinned-black-athlete-76638\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/theconversation.com\/too-pretty-to-play-stephen-curry-and-the-light-skinned-black-athlete-76638<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The women were called \u201cfancy girls\u201d and paraded at quadroon balls, events for wealthy white men to meet and mingle with them. Lighter-skinned black men, meanwhile, were dubbed \u201crun \u2018round men\u201d because, with their fairer skin, they could supposedly have their pick of any woman in the black community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1179,4522],"class_list":["post-54014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-ronald-e-hall","tag-ronald-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54014","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=54014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54015,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54014\/revisions\/54015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}