{"id":55206,"date":"2017-11-18T01:54:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T01:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55206"},"modified":"2017-11-18T01:54:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T01:54:32","slug":"one-in-twelve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55206","title":{"rendered":"One in Twelve"},"content":{"rendered":"

One in Twelve<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Mary Frances Berry<\/a>
\n2014-12-25<\/p>\n

Mary Frances Berry<\/strong><\/a>, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n

When I read in the New Orleans Times Picayune<\/em><\/a> that about 12 percent of Louisiana<\/a> residents who identify themselves as white have at least 1 percent African ancestry, or one African ancestor within the last 11 generations, I thought of Louis Antoine Snaer and his family. Louis Antoine was one of many New Orleans<\/a> free men of color who joined the Union army<\/a> in the Louisiana Native Guards<\/a>, but the only one to remain an officer after the Union capture of New Orleans in 1862. The others were ejected when Union commanders decided African Americans as a race were \u201cnaturally\u201d unfit for leadership, and could not expect white officers to respect them. But Snaer did not identify himself. He passed as \u201cwhite\u201d<\/a> in silence and stayed in the service. He became a Union military hero who led troops at the Battle of Port Hudson<\/a>, and retired as a decorated officer.<\/p>\n

Snaer was later elected to political office as a \u201cNegro\u201d and then like other Colored Creoles moved his family to northern California<\/a> after Plessy v Ferguson<\/em> (1896)<\/a> leaving behind their identities and their histories as Colored Creoles, and becoming white for all intents and purposes…<\/p>\n

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