{"id":57337,"date":"2019-01-22T01:31:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T01:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57337"},"modified":"2019-01-22T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T18:44:09","slug":"american-routes-racial-palimpsests-and-the-transformation-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57337","title":{"rendered":"American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/american-routes-9780190624750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oxford University Press<\/a><br \/>\n2017-04-18<br \/>\n296 pages<br \/>\n6-1\/8 x 9-1\/4 inches<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780190624750<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cas.loyno.edu\/sociology\/bios\/angel-adams-parham-phd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Angel Adams Parham<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/american-routes-9780190624750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/covers\/pop-up\/9780190624750\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviews and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-winner, 2018 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association<\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention, Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award, International Migration Section, American Sociological Association<\/li>\n<li>Co-winner, Barrington Moore Book Award in Comparative and Historical Sociology, American Sociological Association<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first comparative sociological study of nineteenth century white and free black immigrants to the US<\/li>\n<li>Challenges the reliance of immigration scholarship on the historical experiences of European immigrants<\/li>\n<li>Combines archival research, interviews, oral histories, and participant observation to trace the experience of white and black refugees and their descendants in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Louisiana<\/a> over two hundred years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>American Routes<\/em> provides a comparative and historical analysis of the migration and integration of white and free black refugees from nineteenth century <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint-Domingue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Domingue<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haiti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haiti<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Louisiana<\/a> and follows the progress of their descendants over the course of two hundred years. The refugees reinforced Louisiana&#8217;s tri-racial system and pushed back the progress of Anglo-American racialization by several decades. But over the course of the nineteenth century, the ascendance of the Anglo-American racial system began to eclipse Louisiana&#8217;s tri-racial Latin\/Caribbean system. The result was a racial <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palimpsest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">palimpsest<\/a> that transformed everyday life in southern Louisiana. White refugees and their descendants in Creole Louisiana succumbed to pressure to adopt a strict definition of whiteness as purity that conformed to standards of the Anglo-American racial system. Those of color, however, held on to the logic of the tri-racial system which allowed them to inhabit an intermediary racial group that provided a buffer against the worst effects of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Crow<\/a> segregation. The St. Domingue\/Haiti migration case foreshadows the experiences of present-day immigrants of color from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latin-America<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caribbean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caribbean<\/a>, many of whom chafe against the strictures of the binary U.S. racial system and resist by refusing to be categorized as either black or white. The St. Domingue\/Haiti case study is the first of its kind to compare the long-term integration experiences of white and free black nineteenth century immigrants to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S.<\/a> In this sense, it fills a significant gap in studies of race and migration which have long relied on the historical experience of European immigrants as the standard to which all other immigrants are compared.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>List of Charts and Figures<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Acknowledgements<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 1: Racial Systems and the Racial Palimpsest<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 2: St. Domingue as Training Ground: Color, Class, and Social Life Before Louisiana<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 3: White St. Domingue Refugees and White Creoles in Nineteenth Century Louisiana<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 4: St. Domingue Refugees and Creoles of Color<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 5: Twenty-first Century Remnants of a White Creole Past<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 6: Into the Twenty-First Century: Creoles of Color Finding Their Way<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 7: Conclusions: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of U.S. American Regions<\/li>\n<li><em>Appendix<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Notes<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>References<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Index<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Routes provides a comparative and historical analysis of the migration and integration of white and free black refugees from nineteenth century St. Domingue\/Haiti to Louisiana and follows the progress of their descendants over the course of two hundred years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,369,8,17,6462,394,20],"tags":[29288,342],"class_list":["post-57337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-passing-2","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-angel-adams-parham","tag-oxford-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57337","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=57337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57346,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57337\/revisions\/57346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}